SNL pedant here, with SNL pedantry: Bergen loses it in the "Right to Extreme Stupidity" sketch because she accidentally refers to Gilda's character by her OWN character's name, and because Gilda's subsequent lines starting with "we can't all be brainy like FERN here" become that much funnier due to Bergen's goof. The corpsing is earned here, unlike a lot of occasions of performers breaking in subsequent years.
And it's Michael O'DONOGHUE and MARILYN Suzanne Miller. Damn you.
SNL pedant here, with SNL pedantry: Bergen loses it in the "Right to Extreme Stupidity" sketch because she accidentally refers to Gilda's character by her OWN character's name, and because Gilda's subsequent lines starting with "we can't all be brainy like FERN here" become that much funnier due to Bergen's goof. The corpsing is earned here, unlike a lot of occasions of performers breaking in subsequent years.
And it's Michael O'DONOGHUE and MARILYN Suzanne Miller. Damn you.