SNL: Matt Damon Opens Season & A Beer As Judge Brett Kavanaugh
NBC/Twitter UPDATE, with additional clips A perfectly wigged and furiously shouting Mat..
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UPDATE, with additional clips A perfectly wigged and furiously shouting Matt Damon made for an appropriately sputtering and sobbing Brett Kavanaugh for Saturday Night Lives season premiere cold open tonight. (Watch clips below).
“I went to Yale!,” Damon said repeatedly as SNL re-created this weeks Senate hearings. “I worked my butt off to get here! I lifted weights! Every day with Tobin and PJ and Squee and Donkey Dong Doug and had a couple thousand beers along the way.”
The sketch gave just about everyone on the SNL cast a chance at the Senate – Kate McKinnon, of course, was Senator Lindsey Graham, Chris Redd was Cory Booker, Pete Davidson was Sheldon Whitehouse, getting the chance to introduce to SNL the concepts of boofing and Devils Triangle. Ex-SNLer Rachel Dratch returned to play Sen Amy Klobuchar, recreating the dueling Do You Drink Beer? moment. A cardboard cut-out of Alyssa Milano played Alyssa Milano.
But the sketch belonged to Damon, who not only resembled Kavanaugh but got the sniffling down pat, as well as the judges trademark mouth-pucker and eye squint. He said he practiced his opening statements “while screaming into an empty bag of Doritos.”
Under questioning, Damons Kavanaugh blamed the “political con job” against him on the Clintons, George Soros, Kathy Griffin and “Mr. Ronan Sinatra.” Despite his anger, he described himself as “usually a keg-is-half-full kinda guy.”
“I got these calendars,” he said weepily, “these beautiful, creepy calendars. And Im not backin down you sons of bitches – I dont know the meaning of the word Stop.”
The sketch wound down as McKinnons Graham repeatedly defended Kavanaugh by comparing him favorably to “Bill Cosby,” which made Damons judge very, very angry. “Please, just stop saying Bill Cosby!”
