Episode 118 — Matt Damon (Season 51)

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With your host, Brad Omen, featuring Ben Konowitz and Nate Laukes.

And here's the podcast.

Welcome back, friends.

So you like apples?

Yeah, I do like them.

How do you like these dicks?

No, no, no.

That early into the podcast, you don't do.

That's the famous line.

It's not, though.

And you know that.

Yeah.

Let's talk about Matthew Paige.

Damon.

Matthew.

Is that his real middle name?

Paige Damon.

Wow.

All right.

Oh, have you guys seen Goodwill Hunting?

Yeah, seen it so many times.

It's very good.

Oh, I. I've heard his name in.

The movie is Will Hunting.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's good.

Good for him.

Matt Damon is.

You can tell he's getting older.

He's not one of those, like, Paul Ruds that have not aged right.

He does.

He's definitely.

But he's still incredibly handsome whole way through.

So that worked for a lot of different reasons tonight, obviously.

But overall, what did you think of old Maddie?

When's the last time he's been on the show?

Brad, do you even remember the last time?

He doesn't know.

I imagine it was probably for the Martian years ago.

For the Martian?

Yeah.

Last time he was on the show actually was a cameo in season 49 and Chris and Mike.

Okay, well, we're not talking.

I'm just saying if you want to be.

When Was that hosted?

December 15, 2018.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Season 44, then.

He also hosted season 28 in October 5, 2002.

2002.

That would have been for good.

Noborn identity.

And then season.

His first time hosting was 2001.

Season 27.

Yeah, man.

Been around for a while.

Only a third time host.

Yeah.

So.

Well, the fourth time now, but no, I was.

I thought he said this was his third time.

It was his third time.

Oh, sorry.

He's done it three times.

This is fourth time.

No, no, this is his third time.

Said this was his third time hosting.

Like, this third thousand one was a cameo.

That was my bad.

My goodness.

He could have been wrong, guys.

You guys don't know.

He could have been Matt Damon.

Could have been wrong, the writers wrong.

About reading what the writers wrote.

But also, he was impersonated by.

He was first impersonated by a cast member in 1998. Who is the cast member that impersonated him?

Chris Kattan.

No, 1998.

That's a very good question.

I do believe that, Brad, you put this cast member, I think, if I remember right, in your top 10 cast members.

Interesting.

Very interesting.

Kevin Nealon.

I'm gonna Say Will Forte.

Was Will Forte on in 1998?

Sure.

No, no, no, he was not.

I think he missed about a decade.

No, I don't remember Jim Brewer.

Oh, you scammed.

Oh, so it was a joke.

He was saying.

Let's be honest, though.

We all remember Goat Boy.

We all remember the Joe Pesci show, and we all laughed.

I did laugh at the Joe Pesci show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And probably Goat Boy.

Go Boy was fine.

Well, you want to get into it?

Do we have any viewer mail?

Yeah.

What about the comments, Nate?

Did you even look?

Why don't you guys for a second talk amongst yourself and I'll check those.

Here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

He's got the list pulled up already.

I know.

You guys should.

I remember about Jim Brewer?

I didn't even bring this up last time, but Joe Wicker had a fun comment last time where he tried to Babe Ruth or call out what the episode was gonna be, you know, And I gotta say, he got a lot of it right.

And also it was a little mean.

He got a lot of it right.

It was a little bit mean.

It was a little mean.

It felt like he was mocking the podcast even though he was also right.

He was.

I don't know what that's called, but I think it's called being 100% right.

I talked to longtime listener Joe Wicker at Locally Sourced, an event that our nonprofit did recently, and he actually said that he thought he was wrong.

His guesses were wrong.

He really.

He was that.

No, no, I, I, I read through it.

It was.

He's about 50.

50.

You tell me.

Okay, here we go.

Joe Wicker's comment.

And this was from the previous episode, though.

This is from the Olivia Rodrigo episode.

Yes.

Right.

Okay.

And he says, here's my guesses prior to listening mid Cold Open.

And this is about the Olivia Rodrigo, not about this episode.

Just to be clear.

He says, fun enough monologue, too much visible cue card staredowns and sketches.

I don't think we said that.

By the way, Brad thought Weekend Update was great, but only scored it at 87, while the other scored it at 95.

Here's the thing.

It was exactly 87.

But you guys all undershot.

Yeah, so, yeah, so that was a.

It was a correct.

Correct guess.

Wrong reasons.

Some really funny parts and sketches.

Ben says something that seems inappropriate.

Inappropriate because it's taken out of context.

Guarantee it wasn't taken out of context, by the way.

And I don't think that happened in Olivia Rodrigo's episode.

I don't think.

I don't think we had him on.

Well, I don't think I stepped in it.

They thought the episode was just okay because he secretly hates snl.

Not true.

I don't know that second part.

You might.

We'll see how many I get right and he didn't.

That's just so mean.

He got, like, a couple of them right.

He got like.

Like Brad.

He got right, but.

Except we did undershoot.

I think we undershoot more now because Brad.

Because the Brad armor is just boring.

Busted.

Did we get anything from Spotify or any emails?

No Spotify?

No email.

YouTube?

No.

I mean, nothing anymore.

I mean, it's just like, just.

Just crickets out there.

No one cares.

No one cares.

Everyone stopped caring.

I would love it to read a new one, though.

So if you guys, especially if I don't know you, I'll read it on the air even if you call me a jerk.

And you can also predict if you'd like to predict how the episode goes like Joe Wicker did.

That's fine.

We did have a comment from somebody who was just excited that the episode was out.

That is true.

Yeah.

They said it was going to get them through their Wednesday, which is great.

Yeah.

Who was that?

Say their name.

John Goodman.

You see, here's the thing, Brad.

You asked me to say their names.

After I just left on the page.

He went to go check Spotify after.

Me to check Spotify all these other ones.

And so I did.

And now you're like, hey, go back to that thing before.

And if only there was a time where we could prepare.

Hey, listen, he's busy, all right?

He's got a lot going on.

Brad.

Hey, Brad.

Brad.

He can't read.

Do you know how to say it?

Zachowitz.

I was close.

Hey, Brad Zakowitz.

Let me know if I got it right.

It's Zachary.

So there were more comments.

He says, heck, yeah, get me through my Wednesday.

See?

Told you, buddy.

You're just.

See?

We like you.

Anyway, let's get into it.

This was, if you remember right, Matt Damon's third episode, the Gold Open.

Well, actually, that's wrong, because this was technically his fifth episode, but his third time.

Oh, my God.

If you guys both don't move on,.

He doesn't know how to say how to use the words.

I'm quitting the show.

Cold Open Kavanaugh with Kavanaughseth Patel Bar.

The Cold Open takes us to Martin's tavern in Georgetown, D.C. where Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in his robe, strides into the bar yelling, wrong.

And Kavanaugh spots Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and knows exactly why he'd be there.

And so this is the three.

Matt Damon, Colin Jost, and Aziz Asari back doing another political cold open.

What'd you guys think of this one?

This was exactly the kind of refreshing thing I like to see from the cold open.

Not that it was a home run necessarily, but I like that it was different from a press conference or a meeting in the Oval Office or something of that ilk.

You also love Chubba Wumba.

You can't not love Chumba Wumba.

Whenever you hear that song, you just get.

Start tub thumping.

Start tub thumping.

But this is a great way to send up stuff that is obviously in the headlines, but also bring back Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh, which was a fun.

It is rare to have the host in the cold open.

It is.

It's great that for him to reprise a character that he played only for a bit so many years ago when Brett Kavanaugh was in headlines for being a piece of garbage.

So, yeah, I like this.

I think that they maybe didn't need to recycle the same, you know, facial expression joke of for Cash Patel.

Yeah, you know, it feels, like, really heavy into that.

It's like, there's plenty to go on.

We've been making fun of this for years, you know, so we.

But it did work because they did.

There was a lot of talk about his stupid whiskey that happened over the past week.

But, yeah, I feel like it was a good combination of stuff that was very recent and also dredging up some stuff just for fun because they could.

You say very recent, but do people still care about Brett Kavanaugh?

Because I couldn't tell if that was a good impression of Brett Kavanaugh or not.

Oh, no, he has not been in the news.

He's not really doing much of an impression of Brett Kavanaugh.

He just.

He played Brett Kavanaugh at the time.

Doing an old college role.

I'm just saying, does anybody, like, even remember that Brett Kavanaugh was on the Supreme Court?

Court?

Because.

Well, yeah, because he's on the Supreme Court and they've been making terrible decisions.

He's been doing exactly things that he said he wouldn't do because he sucks.

Hey, your body, my choice.

All right.

Sounds about right.

What did you think of this, Ben?

No, I. I do like it when they move off stage.

Let's call it and do something different.

This is this fine I guess I didn't.

You know, I didn't laugh as much as I maybe wanted to.

But again, I'm not going to judge it because I don't know how to do it any better.

And it's also better than what we normally.

Exactly.

Yeah.

No, and I did.

I was completely fine with Matt Damon, you reprising that role and bringing that back out.

It was a.

It was a good.

I didn't see it coming.

So that.

That's good.

Hegseth's always, you know, a buffoon, so it's pretty easy there.

Adding these was.

I think it's clever enough still, you know, it works.

I wish that they probably would have escalated to the three Drunkatiers to something different.

Maybe they will in the future.

Who knows?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I think back at when Matt Damon did that character, Brett Kavanaugh, and it was such a great.

Was that cold opening as well.

I think it was probably when he did that.

And it was so good.

It just seemed so funny and so fresh.

This just didn't seem fresh to me.

It didn't.

Like.

It was fine.

But it's probably because they really are drilling deep into the well of the Hegseth, drinking like the party boy.

And it doesn't help that they literally just did Cash Tells things last week.

Right, Right.

So it's all just not very fresh.

Well, but.

And that's a culmination.

Yeah.

In that way, it's kind of a perfect storm of just like, oh, these things are all kind of happening.

And they do kind of all tie together.

So let's do.

And I'm fine with that.

I just.

If you're.

I hope they then don't go back to the Hexeth well again, because they've been hitting that really hard, you know.

And again, there are now really diminishing returns.

For me.

Yeah.

For me, it's fine.

But not memorable.

All right, moving on.

Monologue.

Matt Damon opens by noting that while he's been on the show many times is secondly only his third time hosting, which I told you earlier, which seems a little low.

Right.

He jokes about how long it is until his new movie, the Odyssey, comes out.

Making a cameo in this is Marcelo Hernandez and his beautiful mother Isabel.

And then the other person in the audience.

Do you know who that was?

The writer, Arcade Fire?

No, he's a writer.

It is SNL writer Jack Benzinger.

What'd you guys think of this?

Did you like it?

Yes.

I mean, it's.

Matt Damon knows what he's doing.

When it comes to being on snl, even though he's only hosted three times, he's very skilled at doing this kind of thing.

I will say the one thing that I was a little bit frustrated by, to the point where I almost thought that they weren't going to come back to it, was it felt like doing the pre recorded, quote unquote Mother's Day message for you to use as like a gift to your mom.

Felt like it interrupted the flow of the bit with that writer and wanting to meet Marcelo Hernandez, his mom.

And I'm glad they did end up going back to it, but it felt like it kind of ruined.

Yeah, I wanted them to keep going with that and then shift into something else as opposed to having a big, you know, different angle in the middle and then going back to at the very end.

Yeah.

And it's not like those two things really tied together.

Right.

At all.

And so, yeah, it did feel slightly disjointed because of that.

But I'm, I'm glad that maybe they were just like, well, this just needs some time to breathe before we bring it back for timing purposes.

And maybe that's it.

I do miss seeing all the moms, though.

I really do wish that they did.

The big thing, actually.

It's, it's, it's where SNL gets funny and meaningful at the same time.

I kind of like that as a.

Kind of saccharine, over the top thing.

I really did like seeing like Pete Davidson's mom.

And, you know, I remember Keenan's mom.

You know, it's just fun to see.

Maybe it just wasn't different enough because there aren't enough new people to bring moms who haven't been there before.

I mean, I just see old moms.

There's a lot of new cast members.

Yeah.

Like this year, particularly from the last time they did.

Maybe all four of the featured players hate their moms.

There's four new moms except for Marcel.

No, Marcel is not new anymore.

Right.

That's what I mean.

Yeah.

Maybe the four featured player hates their mom.

Four new moms.

Right.

But that's it.

That's what I'm, that's what I mean, though.

It's like, how many do you need?

How many new moms do you need to make it worth it?

A big question and one that you don't want me to get into.

No, I don't.

At all.

Super inappropriate.

Please don't.

You're going to do it, aren't you?

I'm just thinking about it.

All right.

Anyway, I liked it.

How old are the moms?

Okay, calm down.

So my.

I think my favorite part about the.

Monologue was how quick it was.

That was good too.

But the line inside the.

The card to Mom.

He.

It's.

He's so good.

Yeah.

At the.

Like.

Well, no, you're.

You're the sister.

Like, it's literally perfect.

Exactly what Matt Damon would want to do.

Oh, stop it.

Oh.

Old enough to know what I'm doing and young enough to still be able to do it.

Yeah, that was great.

That's a great frickin line.

Which I'm trying to now steal.

Ashley says, no, you're not old enough to know what you're doing yet.

So I'm gonna try.

All right, moving on.

Godzilla Movie the Monster Channel presents Godzilla King of the Monsters to Dawn of the King of All Mon.

A navy admirable admiral played by Matt Damon is being briefed in a command center as a sonar and radar track something terrifying in the ocean.

Every time his navigator delivers increasingly awful news about a creature crushing submarines and destroying ships, Emerald does a massive spit take.

Can I say something about this?

That I don't know how to say this without it being weird.

Oh, I like where this is going.

I needed more in the face.

Oh boy.

I just needed the spit takes all hit Mikey Day in the chin and the chest.

And I swear spit takes are hilarious if it covers the face.

And it.

It almost.

It never happened until they had all the water.

I wasn't really.

The yogurt would have been amazing.

Yeah.

I was gonna say the yogurt was the one that was the most disappointed.

Didn't get all over his face.

And that's just weird to say out loud.

But I think physical comedy means physical comedy.

And like.

But also I think that if there was maybe one other benefit to it is that it looked like he did get a lot in the ear.

It does make me feel better.

Yeah.

And also, I can't tell you how hard that must have been not to break.

I mean, just.

Mikey Day is an all timer.

It was insane.

He did kind of break.

He laughed.

Yeah, he definitely.

A little bit.

And I.

So I would.

That's why.

That's what made it great.

And sometimes we say that, you know, just because the animals misbehave and that's why the sketch is funny, doesn't make it a funny sketch right now.

I don't know if it would have been as funny if he didn't.

Never broke, but man, it was funny.

I think it would.

I think any kind of spit take is funny.

It is.

It is relying on the physical comedy that I love, and it's just absurd.

It is absurd.

And I thought.

It doesn't mean it's going to be the best sketch, but it's going to get me to laugh a little bit, at least.

Yeah, exactly.

I enjoyed it.

And it's.

It's always great when they lean into a concept like this and draw more attention to just how obvious it is, what the gag is.

You know, like the fact.

The way that he describes.

Bring me the yogurt that I like that has all the chunks in it.

Yeah, yeah.

Like the melty, slippery.

Sloppy.

Sloppy yogurt.

The thick green juice that I like.

Veronica, slow.

Koska's line.

Sorry I didn't get to do it yet.

I mean, Ben Marshall almost.

You can see him in the background in the very first one.

He.

He looks straight down.

Yeah.

He's like, I can't do this.

Everyone, please stop.

I'm so.

I'm so wet.

I'm so wet.

Yeah, it was great.

I really had a good time with it.

All right, moving on.

Mom movie trailer.

A fake movie trailer advertises mom the Movie, a film engineered to deliver everything moms love in a movie and nothing they don't.

Brad, what'd you think of this trailer?

Yeah, this was great.

I mean, a good showcase for Ashley Padilla, who is both wonderful as a comedian, but also plays a great mom, as we've seen her do several times.

And I don't relate to this because my mom likes a bunch of different movies, so she's not always just about, like, just bad movies, but.

But this was.

It hit all the right things of, like, the stuff that you expect, you know, from just sweet moms who want to just.

Oh, yeah.

It reminds me of my mom, like, wanting both her boys in the same, you know, like, she'd be fine if we moved back in.

She really would be.

And, oh, my gosh, that Mark Damon.

Yeah.

So my mom.

We talked about this on our other thing.

Go flex yourself.

But my mom famously mispronounces every actor's name.

I love now.

I love that Jake Giantal.

I just think that he is.

That's literally words from her mouth.

Is it?

It's John Hammond, John Hammy.

She.

And it's like the most basic ones.

You.

Paul Root.

Is it rude?

Yeah.

I don't know how she constantly.

She reads it first.

She doesn't ever watch TV like that.

She literally reads articles.

Like, she still gets, like, I think she still gets People magazine.

She still reads all these articles, so she doesn't know how to pronounce them in.

I love it so much.

This is, this is though, like the, the perfect sketch for Ashley.

Oh, absolutely perfect in this perfect mom.

I thought it was a good sketch.

It was a fun sketch.

It wasn't, you know, anything I'll probably remember long term, but it, I enjoyed that they did a Mother's Day thing, but Ashley Padilla is just so good and it was worth watching.

Just, just like, like enjoyable rather than laugh out loud funny.

And I'm fine with that.

All right, moving on, tough guys.

This had Matt Damon, Marcelo Hernandez and Kenan Thompson in it.

Three men, self described.

Oh, wait, sorry.

I just remembered the one part of the mom trailer that I really liked it.

It's like, mom, that was such a great story and I'm so glad you told me the races of each person.

Yeah, that's a good line.

All right, moving on, tough guys.

Three men, self described neighborhood tough guys stand at a block party lamenting how everyone thinks they're a tough guy these days.

This is totally hated.

1.

Oh, that means, don't get me wrong, this was not very good, but I can't actively hate.

He's trying to be a tough guy right now.

No, he's trying to be a tough guy.

This sketch would beat your ass.

Yeah, probably.

It just didn't work at all.

No, I will say it's.

It's very one note, and I didn't think it was particularly funny.

And I also feel like they kind of shot themselves in the foot because I think that they, they got too ridiculous too quick.

The fact that one of the earlier punch lines is about someone being in a wheelchair and that person being their ass made the reveal of it being a kid, being the one who did the quarter thing with Kid Thompson, it was like, well, that's not as ridiculous.

Yeah, of course a kid is going to be one of the people.

I didn't hate this, you guys.

Oh, no, I didn't hate this.

That's because you're not a tough guy.

Yeah, I, I thought it was.

I thought Marcelo Hernandez was great.

I thought Matt Damon was, you know, you know, Boston E grade.

Like, I, I didn't think they were bad in this.

I think honest to goodness, that the,.

It was one note for sure.

I think the normal SNL formula would have worked better here.

And sometimes I complain about that, but it's like there's two straight guys in the joke and all three of these Guys were.

Were not playing and nobody played the straight guy.

Yeah.

All three of them were doing ridiculous over the top things.

I got.

I'm in a cage.

This guy had a quarter of my mouth.

I think.

Oh, I think that's the other problem too, is like, it's.

Everyone's doing the same thing, but also it's not weird enough to make it as funny as it should.

If you had two straight guys and only one guy was saying those things, I think that's a way funnier thing.

Yeah.

Or.

And.

Or like I said, if you're.

If you're gonna have them all three be like that.

Gotta go way, way weirder.

Way, way more absurd, you know, and maybe that's.

Again, I didn't know you guys can.

Write them all better than.

Well, that's the thing.

Like, I wonder what the.

Online I haven't looked at.

All right.

I don't know if this was panned or loved.

Maybe we're wrong.

Maybe people.

It was actually liked quite a bit.

No, we can't be wrong.

Fair enough.

All right.

Hey, man, that's just like your opinion.

Yeah.

Moving on.

Tidy Care Crystals.

This is a pre tape with Matt Damon, Ashley Padilla, Andrew Smukes, and James Austin Johnson as the narrator.

This was a commercial parody introduces Tidy Care Crystals, a revolutionary cat litter that uses color to reveal your cat's emotional state.

And this kind of had a little bit of escalation, a lot of fun.

I loved.

I loved Ashley Padilla and Matt Damon in this.

They were just so good.

Back and forth, the fighting backwards.

It was very good.

I actually like this quite a bit.

Brad, what'd you like?

No, I loved the sketch.

This felt like an.

An even more absurd and antagonistic version of Stranger Than Fiction.

I like that it turned into like, just the narrator being vaguely part of it and like it being a normal commercial to actually kind of having a story that unfolded along with it.

And the fact that he was so involved with, like, criticizing how weird their kid was and everything.

And the fact that he.

Even at the end, it was like, it's usually the son.

Yeah.

And then I also loved when they were in the bed.

It was like, why.

Why are you here?

What are you doing?

That.

That kind of meta thing.

It worked really, really well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, yeah, it was.

I thought it was very funny.

I like the escalation of it.

I love that it was just.

Just a little bit weird, just a little bit absurd, but still, like, it's.

It was almost like.

Like a.

A commercial version of Too Many cooks, in a way, if that makes sense.

So it.

The open felt like whatever that Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader one was the pizza fell on the floor and that scurried under the refrigerator.

Right.

I said, well, what is it then?

It's not pizza.

Right.

It felt like that.

Like, well, what's blue mean?

Don't worry about it.

Okay.

But then it went completely different.

Exactly.

And I love that the narrator thing, you know, it was.

Yeah.

Because it's.

It's both the mystery of where the blues coming from and then also having the personality of James Johnson.

Johnson really worked well.

Yeah.

I read a comment on Reddit that said this seemed to be a perfect vehicle for what they would have done when Cecily Strong was there.

And I thought that I could see Cecily Strong in this as well.

Oh, yeah, that felt really like.

Oh, yeah.

No, I bet she's.

I bet she had a sketch something like this because she often played those kind of characters as well, but.

All right, get your computer out, Bradford.

It is time to talk about weekend updates.

Ben.

So I think that Michael Che is having a lot more fun these days.

He is definitely the impetus for a lot of the Che Jost back and forth.

And this is pretty evident in this episode.

I mean, right off the bat with the Marco Rubio thing.

That's.

First of all, that's hilarious.

I laughed really hard at their back and forth there.

Marco Rubio and then trying to get the Jeffrey Epstein thing.

Like, that's funny.

It worked a lot.

They had really good back and forth because of that.

So I don't know.

I think it's pretty high because of this.

Now we, as our.

Our one listener has said, we have been.

He thinks we've been bashing it down lower even.

Because we know Brad.

Yeah, because I think that.

Oh, and then.

And then Brad puts it at a 79.

You're like, okay, I guess.

I guess it's broken.

I think this was there a lot.

Of back and forth, though.

I just, I feel like there was.

I thought the jokes are good.

I think the jokes good.

But I think that was.

I mean, they literally talked to each other quite a few times.

And I think that that's part of it.

The, the weekend updates bits were pretty Good.

You went 87 last week.

Was it better than last?

No, I think it wasn't better than last round.

85.

85.

4.

Okay.

85.

Wow, guys.

Oh, boy.

You really.

You're really underselling the barometer and you're really just not in tune with my feelings.

And my.

What was it needs and my expectations.

I gave it a 90.

What?

All right, explain yourself.

The, I mean, right off the bat, like, like Ben said, you know, the Marco Rubio thing was a big thing and that the fact that they kept that going as like a little runner throughout was really funny, I thought.

And there was plenty of times when like Che reacted to like a joke not doing particularly well for Colin.

And like the, there was one when like he did the, like the thumbs, thumbs up.

He talked directly, talk directly to him.

I still thought that's 80s though, you know.

But you also love the WNBA jokes.

Well, of course.

Yeah.

Well, it's hard to miss them.

So you like this one better than last week?

Yeah, I think it squeaked by it, you know, like it's three point jump.

And I think it was justified by just the kind of fun that they had with each other in this edition of Weekend Update.

So let's talk a little bit about the length of Weekend Update because it was 17 minutes.

Now.

That's what happens when you have three guests at the desk.

Yep.

And maybe that's why they stole some from the monologue, because that was a shorter monologue and they needed more.

Do you like that decision?

Do, do you want them to do more Weekend Update stuff?

Because it is usually one of our favorite things about the episode.

It depends.

You know, sometimes I'm in the mood for it.

Sometimes I think I would rather.

Because my biggest problem when you, when you have a longer Weekend Update is you don't often get the host at the desk in Weekend Update.

And so I would prefer to see more of the host in other sketches as opposed to getting more Weekend Update.

But that also just depends on how good the additional segments on Weekend Update are.

And so in this case, I would say for the most part I was pleased with how things went as far as all three of the people they brought to the desk.

I thought it was all earned and justified and very funny.

And so, yeah, I think in this case it worked out pretty well.

What about you, Ben?

Sorry, we're talking about, we're Talking about.

The 17 minute length of Weekend Update.

Do you think that's a good call?

Would you like to see about the.

17 Minute length of you describing the 17 minute length?

Wow.

It was a long time.

He took the time to make you think he wasn't listening because he kind of was half listening.

And then I was against you.

I would, I would, but.

But I was fine with it.

I just, I think I would have done two Update bits Instead of three.

Oh, okay.

Which.

Well, we'll get to it.

I know exactly which one it cut too.

Because he doesn't like women.

Let's go to.

You don't know those dolphins were women.

Tucker Carlson, played by Jeremy C. Jeremy C's Carlson bemoaned the Met gala's liberal aesthetic.

Jimmy C. Has I. I guess you would say this is his thing.

Is it the most perfect impression ever?

Probably.

It's one of the best impressions.

Such good, spot on.

And just the perfect level of parody.

The perfect level of escalation.

His voice, it's like somebody who does a really good Christopher Walken or a good Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Like, it's never going to be exactly that person.

But the ones that do it the best have that slight.

Is almost a level to like James Austin Johnson doing Trump, where I'm like, this is almost as good.

This is so.

You know when an impression is very good, when you can do the voice of that.

That literal person saying anything.

Yeah.

It's not just that he's saying the catchphrase, and that's.

Sure, that's part of it.

But talking, laughing, like him.

Everything.

I had so much fun watching this.

But also to speak to the strength of the catchphrase with this particular impersonation.

I think it speaks well to how good an impersonation is.

Is that I guarantee you that, like, however long Jeremy Culhane is on the show, that whenever anyone tries to make fun of Tucker Carlson in passing, in Company with Friends like that, what's the deal?

What are we doing?

What are we doing?

What's going on here?

That that's going to be like, the same thing with, like, anybody doing, like, not gonna do it for, you know, for George H.W.

Bush.

Anything like that.

Like a signature line that you will forever associate with a specific impression.

We are.

Brad and I do it all the time.

Yeah.

And it's become part of my vernacular.

Like, I think it's hilarious.

By the way, do you smell what the Rock is cooking?

Because I do.

Gender confusion.

Some of the lines were just so funny.

And so the way that it escalates to true parody, though, is because it takes it then it takes it out of politics.

And the letter E in Maine.

Yeah.

That's just silly.

And that's what a great impersonation does.

It takes it enough off the rails where it is parody.

And also on top of that, it had a great left turn, too, of him having a faux sponsor of the Round Bananas.

Don't have one.

A banana.

But you don't want to look gay and it.

And Colin Jones, but you can't do an ad read like calling it an industry term.

It worked.

This whole thing really worked.

Yeah, it was great.

All right, we can update bit2.2 kamikaze dolphins on the Iran war.

This is with Mikey Day, Marcelo Hernandez.

Mikey, Dan, and Marcelo appeared in dolphin costumes as two actual US Military dolphins who had been recruited by a recruiter who came by our reef.

What'd you guys think of this?

This is certainly good costume work.

I hope they figure out a way to shoehorn these two characters into other.

Like, we can update bits, like, bring them back to talk about anything else, because.

Yeah.

Having Mikey and Marcelo together as characters was so funny.

I loved establishing the bad puns.

Right.

Earlier.

The puns were so terrible and getting.

Perfect and just getting defensive over them.

Yeah.

Oh, go darn.

I love.

Oh, you went for the porpoise but not surgeons.

Yeah.

And that.

And I. I wonder if that was built in like, they hoped that the audience went that route, because if not, great natural reactions.

Good God.

It's like.

And.

And I love.

I love a good pun.

Yeah.

And I love a bad pun even more.

And this is perfect for that.

It really was great.

But, yeah, they just.

They bounced off each other so.

Well.

Kudos to Mikey Damaso Hernandez, because they work.

Yeah, they work together really well.

And kudos to Mikey Day, too.

Not more.

But like, Mikey Day does this with a lot of people where he.

He can just compliment you.

Yeah, perfectly.

He knows Marcelo and another person do a.

Do great work together, him and Jane Wickline, you know, being the couple or whatever.

But Mikey Day seems to literally be able to adhere himself to literally anybody and just make that a couple.

Well, as former sketch comedians, as you guys are.

Oh, boy.

We're not, though.

But you guys probably know this.

That, like, when it was trotting the boards.

But it is, though.

Mikey Day seems to know the role he's supposed to play in every sketch, and that seems obvious, but it's not.

Like, I don't think every, you know, sketch comedian understands the subtleties of every role they're playing as well as somebody like Mikey Day.

He's a lot closer to Phil Hartman then, I think, like, that's.

That's about the highest praise that I can get.

It's actually pretty good, actually, is that.

He is truly an heir apparent to Phil Harmon.

I say that with all the respect of the world to Phil Hart.

I never really thought about that until you said it.

And when you said It.

It, like, it makes perfect.

It does.

He really does fit into, like, any kind of role.

And, like, he can go over the top characters.

Exactly.

Maybe he's not as skilled as a.

Of a.

Of an impressionist as Phil Hartman was because he.

That's true.

Yeah.

That's fair.

But.

But you're absolutely right.

But the everyman that can be the only man to do it, you know, too, like, caveman lawyer is not an everyman character.

That's a bit.

And Mikey Day can do that.

Right.

But then he also played the dad that's just mad and sitting on the chair.

Yeah.

It's just.

He's just a really.

A renaissance man on the show, for sure.

And I think Marcelo is kind of similar to Jim Brewer in a lot of ways.

Why would you.

That's the.

So mean.

That's like, if I.

If I gave Mikey the ultimate compliment, I think he's gave Marcelo Hernandez the ultimate insult right there.

You guys aren't fans.

Okay, so.

Wow.

Sorry, Marcelo.

That's the two.

Sorry, Marcelo's mom.

She's the one that listens.

Yeah, that's the two you would keep.

Okay, so the third one then is Jane Wickline being chronically late.

Jane Wickline performed an original song delivered as a defiant, unapologetic ode to everyone she has ever made weight for her.

What'd you think of this one?

Let's start with Ben.

I have one complaint about this, and it has nothing honestly to do with Janewick Lane.

I truly wish not doing a bit here.

I wish the keyboard was louder because she.

She was.

What she was saying was very funny, and it was supposed to be part of a musical.

And that.

I think that is just a failure of audio because I could barely hear her touching the keys, and so it just sounded like she was talking loudly over nothing.

And I really do feel like if I could have heard the music a little bit more, it would have made it better.

Me wonders if your sound system isn't all that great, though.

Fair enough.

Yeah.

I think that's been.

It's been messed up for a little while.

Okay, Fair enough.

So.

But anyway, because I did love this.

Oh, I.

What she was saying was so good.

So funny.

I don't.

I think that this could have been so much better in another format.

Do you think a pre.

Tape would have been better.

Would have been better for this?

Because it's.

It's perfect.

Like, it's such a good premise.

I agree.

I almost don't agree.

I don't know.

I think it's And I.

It's interesting that you.

That you say this because this kind of works perfectly timed to the most recent episode of the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast where they were.

They had a really interesting commentary and criticism of their own work and a decision that they made in doing the sketch.

The most recent episode, they talk about the sketch.

What was that?

And if you don't remember what this SNL digital short was, is it takes place at, like this kind of un style meeting where Andy Samberg is playing a kid who is like, recounting real events in history.

Like, he goes.

The Holocaust.

What was that?

Yeah, are you kidding me?

I remember that.

And so the whole premise is just like, him questioning, like.

Like really, like this is what, like, you guys are doing, you know, like, what are we doing?

What are we doing here?

Yeah.

And they talked about one of the things that they wish they would have done and had the foresight to do is they felt like that they made it look a little too slick by using, like, a steady cam and making it look really nice.

Whereas if they would have made it look like this kind of like, crappier lo fi video where they were capturing like a kid actually talking at a thing, it would have protected it and it didn't need to feel as big or as like, important as they made it feel by making it look so good.

And in this case, I think if you take Janewick Line's song and you give it a glossier sheen and you turn it into a real proper music video, it loses some of the quirkiness of Jane being so adamant about her own tardiness, you know, Like, I think that there's.

There's an added level of comedy that comes from her saying in a way where she's just.

She's so mad and she's so defined about it.

Like, she had to write this crappy song about it.

And so, like, it being a very low budget production made it funnier to me.

Disagree, but I see your point.

But disagree.

I'm hearing you.

I'm hearing what you're saying, and I'm receiving it.

I disagree.

You're wrong.

Right.

But no, I think.

And I, I also, I love so much too.

And, like, it makes perfect sense.

It's.

It's like because if.

If I'm early, then I have to wait and I don't want to do that.

Exactly.

No.

Because looking at my phone was more important than you.

Yeah.

I'm gonna show and I'm gonna show up 40 minutes late with an ice cream Cone.

Yeah, yeah, it's.

And like, her describing it running down.

Her head and also the fact that she's so good and that it's vanilla.

Exactly.

I. I tested a whole 100 flavors and I still got vanilla.

Like, what a piece of.

You know, what a bad friend.

It does drive me crazy when somebody is late.

All right, listen, I'm getting better.

No, they're, they're, they're 20 minutes late and they come.

You were late to breakfast with a Starbucks.

Now that's fair.

That is fair.

Like, it's like, come on, dude.

Really?

It wasn't in your car from last night.

Shut up.

That's hot.

It's steaming right now.

It's like you're later now because you stopped at Starbucks and that's fair.

Sorry about that.

But also, if you're chronically late, nobody likes you, all right?

People do talk shit about you, and rightfully so.

You're a piece of.

Moving on, substitute teachers.

Goodbye.

A substitute teacher played by Matt Damon stands at the front of a class on his last day and announces a special send off a dance party to celebrate how well behaved the students have been.

I would have loved to seen the pitch for this because I told Ashley.

That I'm gonna say my opinion on the show, and then my friends are gonna be like, I'm wrong.

Okay.

My opinion on this is that I don't get it.

I don't think it's funny.

Oh, that's interesting.

I think it's somewhere in the middle.

I genuinely appreciate the effort that went into making this last as long as it did.

And I think.

And me too.

So we're still alive.

Yeah.

Now, where do you think it goes?

I think.

I don't think Matt Damon was the right person to do this and make it as funny as it needed to be.

Don't get me wrong.

He's very dedicated.

He does a great job.

And it's.

I was amused by it, but I think I would have preferred seeing somebody like Adam Driver or, I don't even know, like.

But somebody where it's a more amusing to see somebody known for being so serious most of the time do it as.

Because even though Matt Damon is a very skilled dramatic actor.

Right.

He's also hilarious.

Exactly.

You know, and we know Adam Driver can be hilarious, but he's not typically doing hilarious things.

And so I think you need somebody in that role.

I would like something like Colin Farrell.

Like, would it be hilarious?

To me?

Yeah, I think that'd be really funny.

Too, because, like, tough guy, serious and Then is like, come on, guys.

Like, everybody get up.

Yeah, exactly.

It was so I appreciated Matt Damon's dedication to the bit.

Yeah.

And I liked what it was going for.

But it did feel like it went too long and it didn't quite really land.

What'd you think, Nate?

Yeah, I. I laughed.

There were times where I. I did genuinely laugh.

Really.

Again, it is.

Matt Damon's being silly.

He's doing a lot of physical stuff.

You guys know I love physical comedy.

I think the only thing I really laughed was he was.

He points the camp patterns and he's like, come on, we know you can dance.

That's awesome.

That's just a funny.

There were a couple times there was a couple lines.

He's like, no, no.

Okay, okay.

But it went on too long and it didn't have the escalation I wanted.

They got there very quick.

Yeah.

And then it was like.

But I did like the repeated cuts to everyone in the class and just have the same.

Just like sad.

I wanted.

Look, if you could have done more of those with that Cam Patterson type of line.

Right where the line.

I think it wasn't enough to just show because like again you see the same thing kind of.

It's same reaction.

Nobody's reacting other than the same like.

Kind of like I don't want to be here.

So again, I get it that it maybe is it secondary awkwardness thing that I love.

The audience didn't.

I'm talking the cast audience there.

The classroom didn't add more to it.

And I think they could have been a better foil for some of this.

Maybe there's a.

But I think the one thing that made me pause and appreciate what they were going for a little bit more.

And I think maybe it's the part of the sketch that might work the best outside of the primary premise is the reveal that Andrew dismuses character that that was his dad.

Yeah.

Because that was a great.

I laughed when is that your dad?

Like that's a funny bit.

Yeah.

Right.

His.

His timing to answer it to that actually got me.

Yeah.

I was okay with that.

And then.

And plus the follow up too of Cammy, like, you know, you were at the dealers like a few weeks.

Right.

It's like.

And that was a great line delivery, by the way.

Because I did laugh at that.

Yeah.

Holy.

But yeah.

I don't know.

It's just there's something missing here.

Yeah.

I don't.

And again, this is one of that I'm not going to try to rewrite.

I don't think it's Matt Damon's fault.

I think the miscast, though, of Matt Dame, maybe they hold on to this until you got kind of a super serious actor or actress, maybe pull that off.

Because I like that idea.

You know, I think that, like, maybe again, to your credit there, Nate, like, I wonder what the pitch was, because, like, super serious teacher cuts loose on.

On Last day has a different vibe when it's Matt Damon compared to an Adam Driver.

And it was.

He was a substitute teacher too, so, like.

But yeah, I almost.

I almost wanted to see one of the.

One of the people, like, half get up and then sit down realizing, oh, that would be a mistake.

Like, just anything out of the.

Like you were talking about anything out of the audience.

I even wonder if it's.

If Matt Damon is, like, just really in this unfortunate sweet spot of where he.

He kind of pulls it off, like, because he's.

Dance a little bit.

I'm like, yeah.

I mean, this is kind of cool.

Yeah.

Because it's not that awkward because someone like Will Forte or will Frell doing this.

I think it also works really well.

Like, it's like.

It's funny, though.

Like, but it's funny the way they're dancing.

Exactly.

And so enthusiastic.

Yeah.

But Matt Damon's right in the middle, and just maybe it feels too natural.

It's like, oh, like, that's what.

What if Matt Damon was in charge of getting kids to dance?

That's exactly what he would do.

And we're all like, he's trying his best.

Yeah, exactly.

That looks like a guy who would buy a zoo.

Moving on, auctioneers.

The final sketch of the night belongs to, I think, some of the best work, I will say it all season in Matt Damon and Sarah Sherman as a married couple, as auctioneers.

I loved this sketch so much.

I was so happy.

I watched this way the show ended.

I watched this three times.

I was so, like, okay, this episode was fine.

And then this hit.

I was like, oh, okay.

Well, that's the best sketch of the.

Of the year.

So, I mean, it was.

It was literally.

It's musical theater at that.

It took to do this sketch.

Tell me why you hated it.

And to pull it off the way that they did.

Brad's got a look on his face is.

I mean, because again, I was just watching almost academically going, but, Nate, Brad's got it from.

This was so incredible to pull.

Pull this sketch off.

Yeah.

What did you think?

I want to see the cue cards.

That's what I'm saying.

Like, that's what I'm saying.

Like, I really want to see what they look like.

To see if they just had to go through a bunch so fast or if they, like, had it written almost like you do a song where you say, repeat this, you know, however many times.

Perfect escalation in this, too, bringing in the side characters.

It was just so good.

It was such.

Not.

Well, not really.

Not one flub.

No, it was especially the butter.

Better butter.

I cannot believe the names are hilarious, but the back and forth between Sarah and Matt saying the better butter, I would never.

Better butter your better butter.

That's a literal tongue twister on live tv.

The last sketch of the night where your brain's already fried.

Are you freaking kidding me?

That's what I'm saying.

Unbelievable.

No notes.

That's just literally perfect.

It was incredibly well done.

And it reminded me of this.

Felt like something that.

That Will Forte would have done in his.

In his heyday.

It really had that kind of vibe to it.

Like, I could.

I could see, like, Will Forte and.

And Jason Sudeikis doing something like this together.

But, yeah, the fact that it was Matt Damon and Sarah Sherman doing this together.

Both so good at it, like Nate said, bringing in the additional characters into it, like an escalating it to that point where it was like just like an auctioneer soap opera at that point.

It was just so.

Everything was good.

I mean, write this with Dan Bulla, Max Maxwell, Gay Tucker Flodman.

But kudos, boys and girls.

Sarah Sherman, Dan Bulla.

Just incredible work here.

Yeah, incredible.

Literally no notes.

I wish.

I wish that we could capture that lightning in a bottle for everything.

I mean, that's.

It's the example of hilarious and also artful and skillful and don't try to do it again.

No, this was so.

I don't want that to be perfect, even though they'll probably try because it was so good.

It is one of those.

Sometimes you watch a sketch and you're like, okay, you know the Sarah Sherman episode that they do, right.

Old DVDs that they used to make for us where it was like best of.

Yeah.

Best of Sarah Sherman.

Which.

I'm sad that they don't make these anymore, but we can make our own.

But this should be in one of the best.

Send it to Sarah.

She's had a good season.

Honestly, quietly great.

She's just.

She's just a treasure in general.

I don't know why it took you guys so long to realize this.

Stop it.

I've been on the Sarah Sherman train Since took out of the station.

There are.

If they try to do this again.

Right.

Which they might.

Because I think like the Lisa from Temecula thing is a great example.

Yeah.

That's a.

That was a literal.

A one off, like no notes, great sketch.

And then they did it again and way diminishing returns.

Right.

So I don't know.

I just think that there are certain sketches that they try to do again because they caught lightning in a bottle.

I will say, I think that there is at least some potential to.

To use the same absurdity and still capture what did make this great by.

Does it need to be.

It needs to be an auctioneer.

Yeah, of course.

Right.

But you could do auctioneers at a funeral.

Yeah.

You know, like, it's just scenarios where it would be weird to have on auctioneers but then still have the same.

And yeah, I think that there's definitely.

That would be the move to do rather than like trying to get Matt Damon a cameo, Oregon or something weird.

No, you, you.

Or to have Sarah Sherman play the same person.

Right.

That'd be weird too.

But yeah, I think you're right.

I think that transfer to that could work.

Yeah.

Especially because there was a.

An added layer of comedy that came from them being like.

Like a universe of auctioneers.

Well, not just that, but also the fact they were all Southern.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was talking to somebody this week like, so what got you started on snl?

And I'm like, you know, or watching us.

And I'm like, I was young, I was impressionable.

Well, it was also just.

We didn't really coerced into it.

Have cable.

And so we just.

I'd be up at late at night because I was 11 or 12 and wanting to stay up and I'd lay on the couch and then it come on and I just wanted to watch it.

But I said, now I just love the formation of a sketch in a sketch done well with a cast and writers.

And sometimes I just have so much.

More reverence for it now.

Yeah.

I know how hard it is.

Great word for this.

This was almost just reverent watching it because I'm like, this is what it's all about.

Yeah.

When it's good.

And this is.

Does this.

It's exactly why I get so mad too, when I see the.

The same thing that some always has to say.

It's not just not funny anymore.

It's just like, I. I hate people like that.

Nothing will turn me off more from me like having any respect for you, your personality, your Sense of humor.

That's what.

Don't watch it either.

Usually when people say.

Exactly.

It's like you, you.

You watched your first episode of SNL for the first time in probably five to seven years and you're gonna judge the entire series based on a show that had a couple bad sketches, which.

Every episode of SNL has some sketches that don't work.

And you're just gonna flat out say that you don't think SNL is funny anymore.

It hasn't been funny since Will Ferrell was on.

You know who didn't think that was funny?

The people that loved Adam Sandler's cast.

Right.

Exactly.

You know, and so.

And I've seen some absolute dog shit Will Ferrell sketches.

Yeah, we all have.

It's like, like, it's called watching the show.

Not everybody's hitting.

I'm sorry.

Even Barry Bonds didn't hit a home run every single time he was at bat.

He struck out a lot.

And that's what SNL is.

It's the whole.

It's the same idea too.

Like that.

Why?

I get equally as frustrated when someone sees a big blockbuster movie comes out and it's.

It's not good.

But when someone says, this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, it's like, you don't watch enough movies.

Yeah.

There's no way that this is one of the worst movies you've ever seen.

This is one of the worst movies.

Is anything that you just haven't seen movies?

Yeah, exact movies are just fine.

And that's okay.

It's fine.

Right?

Like it's fine if you don't think it's good.

But it's not one of the worst movies.

You don't, you don't get any clicks for.

For non hyperbolic stage.

So you have to be hyperbolic.

It is a good point.

Sometimes, you know, we'll say a sketch is fine and we don't mean it's bad.

It's just fine.

And that there is a category of nuance where it's like, it's a fine sketch.

There's nothing wrong with it.

It's hard to say things are just fine, but.

Because again, it's like you're not eloquently describing your point if you're saying it was middle of the road.

That's a thing that exists, though.

And the people who make SNL know this too.

If you've ever seen an SNL documentary, they talk about the challenge of the show.

And it's just like a good episode.

You Hope that you'll get a couple.

Okay.

Sketches.

Maybe.

Maybe one really good sketch and some that maybe just don't work.

They know what the formula of our.

Show doesn't happen every episode.

They know.

Not going to.

I. I really do wish that the only thing that I saw after the fact was, you know, that there are, what, seven sketches, let's say, on an episode, and they pitched 35, and those were the seven that made it.

So.

So at a certain point, they were funny.

Yeah.

And let's just agree that they got.

They.

They didn't know.

They don't really ever throw something in that's not funny on purpose because they just.

Everything else.

Yeah.

You have so many.

So all I wanted to see is the Monday morning breakdown of, like, what went wrong.

No, exactly.

Because clearly it was.

When was it funny?

Okay.

Was it funny at Taylor?

Why was it.

I just wanted.

Because I'd have.

I would just.

I would just eat that up because I know.

I know everybody's very funny there.

So many things can go wrong.

So many things can change.

So many things.

Like happen between Dress and live.

Exactly.

So so much stuff happens.

And even.

It's Sometimes it's even more like It's.

You said 35 sketches, you know, for, like.

I recently rewatched Saturday Night, which is the documentary that James Franco made a long time ago, when he was not Persona non grotto, when he was not problematic.

We just didn't know about it.

And at the time documented on Saturday Night Live.

Yeah, it's on YouTube.

Watch it.

Thirteen.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

At the time, it was like the most access anyone had ever been granted behind the scenes of the making of an episode of snl.

And it's him, gorilla style, with, like, crappy camcorder throughout the entire week of snl, during John Malkovich's episode around Christmas time.

And you get to basically see a lot of what you would also see even more of during the SNL50 beyond Saturday night documentaries, where the pitch meeting and rewrites and table read and all that stuff.

That episode, they had 50 sketches that were pitched just for that episode.

And so you have to believe that all seven to nine, whatever, are just really good.

Yeah.

And so what did happen?

Right.

And nobody.

They're never gonna do that, obviously, number one, because I'm pretty sure it's.

It's collaborative enough, even though there's gonna be some infighting that they would not be like.

Well, actually, you know, that writer made the choice to make them stand over there, which fucked us.

You know.

Yeah, they're not gonna do that.

Right.

Sometimes, though.

Okay, we haven't talked about this yet.

In this episode, I truly think that the audience was more there for the musical guests than they were for the comedy.

Because, like, if you.

I just watched both of the intros and they could not stop absolutely screaming for this.

He's a big deal right now.

He is.

But also screaming like a.

That can, though, be.

If they really are there to see one more than the other, then that can hurt the comedy because.

Oh, for sure.

Fans.

Yeah.

If they're not open to, you know, stuff.

That's weird.

Right?

It really does, though, all have to come together.

I don't know.

You know, Auctioneers.

It took a Matt Damon to do that there.

There are.

How many hosts.

This episode could actually have pulled that off.

Yeah, exactly.

Right.

And that sketch would have.

Still, that sketch is only great because of their performances.

Right.

But, like, how many other sketches would have been great if they would have had better performances or other.

Maybe not even better, but other.

That's the thing.

Like, yeah, again, we joke about Travis Kelsey with Brad all the time, but imagine if Matt Damon hosted that episode instead or whatever.

Or you had Ryan Gosling host that episode with the same kind of bits.

Even anything that was just not about a football player.

Right.

Yeah.

You go.

You put somebody better in that, and maybe the whole thing works better.

Of course it does.

You would hope that.

That it would work better.

Yeah.

You know, I don't know.

It's.

It's.

There's always going to be something magical about somebody that quote, unquote, has no business on that stage.

To me, like having a random athlete.

I think they should never get away from that.

It reminds us then when the sketches are really good or sometimes you just get really, like.

You get a Charles Barkley out of it, too.

Yeah.

You know.

All right, let's talk a little bit about the sketch of the night Auctioneer.

It's Auctioneers.

Yeah.

It's very easily auction.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I will say, I think the Tidy Cat commercial comes pretty close as well.

Pretty close.

I think it's a good, good sketch.

I liked it a lot.

I think Auctioneer space than that one.

I was.

I was a big fan of the Tidy Cat one.

I think it's not the Auctioneers, though.

No, of course not.

It's about.

But yeah, Auctioneers is the winner by far, for sure.

All right.

MVP of the night.

I'm giving it to Mikey Day, I think.

I think that's correct.

I was gonna get Sarah Sherman Just because.

Yeah, I get that.

But I. I do think that just from the spit day stuff to the dolphins, just.

Just really, really good stuff.

He had a good night.

But, yeah, I mean.

And plus, you know, I mean, you could always give it to Ashley Padilla again, too.

Well, and Matt Damon as a host did a damn good job.

We did expect that from him.

And it wasn't that.

He.

I mean, again, he didn't carry any of the really, really funniest ones, except for the auctioneers.

I mean, the.

And again, the teacher one just didn't work for me personally.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

All right, you let us know.

Did you pick an mvp, Sherman?

Yeah.

And we said Mikey Day.

Yeah, Mikey Day is a great choice.

I. I think that's a valid choice, but I'd love to know from our listeners.

Let us know who is your mvp.

Make a defense.

If you think another sketch should be sketch of the night, I'd love to hear your defense.

And we could talk about it on the show next time, but it is Auctioneers.

We've got what?

One more episode?

One more episode.

William Farrell.

Farrell.

Yeah.

The season 51 finale will be Will Ferrell next week with musical guest Paul McCartney.

And he's.

No.

No.

Khan.

But, you know, he's fine.

I bet you there will be softer applause for him than there was for.

No.

Because they're old people.

Will he be in a sketch?

Probably.

He's been in quite a few.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'd say so.

Will you.

Will Will Ferrell bring back any of his staple characters?

I don't think he did last time, so I would doubt it.

Yeah, I. I would like to see that.

I don't think it'll happen.

Will he do a George Bush?

No.

Unless something happens between now and then.

A George Bush meeting Donald Trump.

I. I don't want to.

I don't.

I don't.

Why'd you speak that into existence?

Maybe somebody's gonna hear that and want to do that.

It makes me mad.

I don't even.

I don't want that.

All right.

I heard this word the other day.

Strategery.

Great word.

It's my word.

All right, well, we'll be back one more week, and then this show's done.

Wow.

That is.

That is true.

And then that's technically true.

I don't know why.

It sounds more definitive.

Terrible.

But, yeah, we will.

During the summer, we will be doing more episodes of Go Flix Yourself.

We hope that you'll check that out.

And maybe every now and then we'll sprinkle in because we still have to do MacGruber episode of the SNL movies.

It's the last one, so I mean,.

That's a good one.

I love saying we are go flicks yourself.

Listeners have been living.

If I remember correctly, though, I don't think that you've seen the MacGruber movie.

Yet, seeing all the sketches.

See, so that's gonna be a fun one.

No, it'll be a good one, Buddy.

Yeah.

All right.

Hey, Brad.

Where can people find you?

Of course you can see you on.

Video more now, by the way.

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

You can find me at Slash film and Slash Film weekly podcast as well as the pop culture podcast.

But if you want to find out more about the.

The snack foods that I bring on, go flix yourself one every.

Done.

You can check out ookat Brads junk on Instagram and also tick tock and Facebook and you will see some videos of me reviewing things and receiving certain PR packages and whatnot.

So be sure and check that out.

Fancy dance.

Ben, you want to announce anything fun?

Yeah.

My parents cat is back.

Hooray.

Good job, Buddy.

This.

Full disclosure, we can cut all this if you want to, but my parents cat went missing this morning super early, and I texted my mom and I said during the show, and it just.

It's 10:30, and I said, if you guys aren't sleeping, let me know if buddy came back.

And the mom just says, he did not.

And then she goes, your texts go through because you're an emergency contact.

I'm trying to go to sleep now.

And then, of course, half an hour later.

Oh, my God, he's back.

Dad set the alarm for the camera on the deck, and the alarm went off and he was there.

He's skittish, but he doesn't seem to be harmed or anything like that.

Do they love the cat they love?

My mom was like, she is such a Vulcan.

Yeah.

When it comes to, like, just being logical.

And she was weeping on the phone earlier.

I don't.

I don't know why.

We're just so lonely without him.

I'm like, oh, thank God.

Toonces.

Toonces, the driving cat is back.

Yeah.

Do you not know, Toonces?

No.

You don't know?

Oh, my driving cat.

God.

From.

From a little show called Saturday Night Live.

I don't know.

Oh, shut up.

Oh, my God.

I'm sorry, listener.

I. I should know.

You know what?

We are gonna cut this because I. I don't think that we can have a show.

It's 11 o'.

Clock.

Listen, I don't remember anything.

We're gonna have.

We're gonna be new search for a co host.

Yeah.

That knows about toonces the driving.

I don't know, but he's looking it up right now.

You know, it was in the 90s, man.

Yeah.

Victoria Jackson was on the show.

Oh, Steve Martin did it.

But also, you guys are a lot older than me.

I don't really.

You're the same age as me.

That is not.

I am four years younger than both of you.

How old are you?

Shut your.

I'm 44.

I know, but your birthday's in August.

What are you.

Well, mine's in October.

You're 44.

Shut your mouth.

Oh, my God.

He's 44.

Yeah, and I'm 40, so I'm 40.

Yeah, we're three white old men in a basement right now.

That's not the move, guys.

Hey, if you're listening to this, don't go live your life.

Don't listen to us anymore.

Yeah, don't.

Don't do this.

All right, guys, thanks for listening.

We'll be back next week for one more episode.

Be good to yourself.

Be good to others.

Bye.

Bye.