Matt Damon, Aziz Ansari Lead ‘SNL’ Cold Open as Trump Officials
Matt Damon got a quick start to his hosting duties on Saturday Night Live by first appearing in the episode’s cold open. Damon kicked the episode off by portrayed Brett Kavanaugh, an associate justice of the Supreme Court, alongside Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth. The two Trump-backed officials met up at a bar where they agreed that they “are both kicking ass right now.” “Can you believe I just like started a war?” Jost’s Hegseth asked. “Can you believe I ended abortion? Your body, my choice,” Damon’s Kavanaugh said. The two discussed the ongoing Iran war, however Damon quipped that “the real war right now is the war against male loneliness.” “I just wish there were more people in this administration who could really hang,” he added, to which Aziz Ansari joined to make a surprise cameo once more as Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, after popping up during last week’s episode. “Does this bar take cash?” Ansari joked. “So, what’s up? Are we wilding out tonight, or what?” Ansari’s Patel continued to …
