Matt Damon returned to Saturday Night Live this week, reprising his role as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a cold open sketch that humorously revealed President Donald Trump's plan to serve a third term. Damon joined Colin Jost, playing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Aziz Ansari, portraying FBI Director Kash Patel, in a Washington, D.C. bar where the three bonded over drinks.
The Sketch Unfolds
The sketch opened with Jost's Hegseth lamenting, "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." Suddenly, Damon's Kavanaugh burst through the crowd, still wearing his judicial robe. Banging his gavel on the bar, he declared, "Order! I find in favor of six Bud Lights and three shots of Jamo!" The bartender, played by Kenan Thompson, replied, "Yep, a 6-3 decision coming right up," a nod to the Supreme Court's conservative-liberal split.
Boasting and Bonding
The pair joked about their recent successes: Hegseth had "started a war," while Kavanaugh had "ended abortion." They were soon joined by Ansari's Patel, who shouted, "Does this bar take Kash?" and produced a bottle of his own branded bourbon. Looking directly into the camera, Ansari said deliberately, "Yes, somehow this is a real thing that I, the FBI Director, have made — this is real!" He then boasted about living the American dream as "the first person in my family to go to college... parties many years after graduating."
The Big Reveal
Damon's Kavanaugh then dropped a bombshell: Trump would serve a third term. When Jost questioned the constitutionality, Damon admitted, "It was," but revealed that Trump found the original Constitution and at the end wrote, "Sike!" "We're going to live forever," Damon exclaimed as they cheered. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in a third term, despite the 22nd Amendment's prohibition.
Final Call
As the bartender announced last call, the trio ordered final drinks: Jost a whiskey drink, Damon a vodka drink, Ansari a lager drink, and Jost added a cider drink. They then broke into Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping," singing, "I get knocked down, but I get up again, you never gonna get me down." The bar setting played on the characters' histories with drinking — Patel is suing The Atlantic over claims of a drinking problem, Kavanaugh discussed his college drinking during his confirmation hearing, and Hegseth has denied having a drinking problem but pledged to abstain if confirmed.
