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Depending on who you ask, the last people you’d want to stand next to at your neighborhood bar are the man who started the Iran war and the man who helped end abortion (their words, not ours). That’s the premise of SNL’s latest Cold Open, where Colin Jost’s Pete Hegseth sulks into a barstool lamenting that nobody left in the Trump Administration can keep up with him drink-for-drink. That is, until Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh comes stumbling in, played by this weekend’s host Matt Damon. The two spend much of the sketch bonding over everything they’ve managed to accomplish — or inflict, depending on your perspective — since taking office. Hegseth is beside himself at the prospect of the Iran conflict actually ending and leaving him without a reason to exist, while Kavanaugh is in full waterworks mode over the “male loneliness epidemic.” Rough night for powerful men. Things do take a turn for the chaotic, however, when Aziz Ansari returns as FBI Director Kash Patel, instantly shifting the energy from sad-drunk to dangerous-drunk. …
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Matt Damon returned to Saturday Night Live where he reprised the part of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, revealing in the cold open sketch that President Trump will serve a third term. Damon joined Colin Jost’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Aziz Ansari’s FBI Director Kash Patel in a Washington, DC bar where the three bonded over drinks. “It’s nice to have my sneaky bar here where I’m not going to run into anyone from work, because none of Trump’s people like drinking as much as I do,” Jost’s Hegseth says just as Damon’s Kavanaugh busted through the bar crowd, still wearing his justice robe. The judge bangs his gavel on the bar and says: “Order! I find in favor of six Bud Lights and three shots of Jamo!” The barman, played by Kenan Thompson replies: “Yep, a 6-3 decision coming …
“Humanitarian.” “Brilliant.” “Compassionate.” “Intelligent.” Just some of the words guests at the Kennedy Center premiere for Melania, the Amazon MGM Studios documentary about First Lady Melania Trump in the days before the 2025 presidential inauguration, used in their overly effusive praise for the subject of the film. “Unprecedented” was another word that came up specifically to describe the doc — which reportedly was bought for $40 million and given a marketing budget of $35 million — at Thursday’s gala screening. “I’ve been to a number of performances at the Kennedy Center, and I’ve never seen the whole center branded,” noted one red carpet reporter. Indeed, the Kennedy Center (or the Trump-Kennedy Center, as it was referred to on the invite) had the First Lady’s name printed across windows and walls, along with glowing letters across the steps and repeated everywhere. But perhaps the biggest surprise of all was the 34-minutes President Donald Trump and the First Lady dedicated to answering questions on the black carpet, from both mainstream and right-wing media outlets. “Nice to see …
