Matt Damon Hosts SNL, Revives Kavanaugh Sketch

Matt Damon hosted Saturday Night Live on Saturday night, marking his third time in the role and reviving his impression of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the cold open sketch. The segment featured Damon as Kavanaugh joining Colin Jost as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a Washington bar, with Aziz Ansari later appearing as FBI Director Kash Patel.

In the sketch, set at Martin's Tavern, the characters celebrated recent achievements over drinks. Jost's Hegseth boasted, "Can you believe I just started a war?" Damon's Kavanaugh replied, "Can you believe I ended abortion? Your body, my choice." Kavanaugh ordered "six-three" beers and shots, referencing the Supreme Court's ideological split, and later lamented the "war against male loneliness," wishing for more administration members who could "hang." Ansari's Patel entered asking, "Does this bar take Kash?" and produced a bottle of his own branded bourbon, declaring it real. He added, "I'm the first person in my family to go to college parties many years after graduating," calling it the American dream.

The trio shared a classified detail: Kavanaugh revealed plans to allow President Trump a third term. When Hegseth noted...