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‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens With Matt Damon As A Boozy Brett Kavanaugh

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May 10, 2026

Saturday Night Live returned Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) and Kash Patel (Aziz Ansari) to the cold open, this time as they cavort in a booze-filled night along with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (Matt Damon).

Following last week’s debut of Ansari as Patel, the fact that SNL returned to the same theme this week is not a huge surprise.

The opener has Hegseth arriving at Martin’s Tavern, the legendary Georgetown watering hole, where he encounters Kavanaugh, still in his robe and carrying a gavel. In reality, both Hegseth and Kavanaugh faced questions in their confirmation hearings over excessive drinking.

“Hey, can I just say that we are both kicking ass right now,” Damon’s Kavanaugh said.

“Dude, can you believe I just, like, started a war?” Jost’s Hegseth said.

Kavanaugh responded, “Can you believe I ended abortion? Your body, my choice.”

More to come.

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SNL Weekend Update: Jeremy Culhane’s Tucker Carlson Impression 2.0

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2 hours ago

May 10, 2026

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That’s the rule, that’s the goal now.

After hitting the jackpot with newcomer Jeremy Culhane‘s spot-on Tucker Carlson impression a month ago, Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update opted for a redux — this time featuring the infamous Fox News commentator’s less-than-complimentary takes on the Met Gala.

Pitching his voice up ever so slightly and interspersing his diatribes with ridiculous titters, the featured player bemoaned everyone from Dwayne Johnson opting to wear a skirt (“You smell what the Rock is cooking? ‘Cause I do. It’s gender confusion.”) to Madonna donning a “pirate ship” on her head as part of her outfit (“And I have to be attracted to this?”).

“A night of fashion and fun. Huh?! Really? Yes, c’mon everybody, let’s all prance around in our $100,000 clown outfits and watch the American empire crumble,” he said.

Of Heidi Klum’s transformation into a Grecian marble statue, he derided: “The left has finally got what they’ve always wanted. They put the Statue of Liberty in a burka.” Of A$AP Rocky’s outfit, he noted the musician was wearing “my least favorite color” — the rapper was wearing pink — “African American.”

What’s next, he parodied, “Does the Chrysler Building become the ‘Anti-Christ-ler’ building?”

“What are we doing? What’s going on?” he intoned, once again devolving into high-pitched giggles.

Turning his attention to the Michael biopic and star Jaafar Jackson, Culhane-as-Carlson lamented, “The movie ends in 1988, so obviously they avoided something serious that needs to be acknowledged. The part of Michael Jackson’s life no one wants to talk about anymore. Of course, I’m talking about the part where he was a white man. Sorry kids, Michael Jackson doesn’t get to live a beautiful white life anymore. Huh? Who does that remind me of? Oh, that’s right, all of us.”

The kicker was a sponsored message for a fake product: “You wanna eat bananas without looking gay? Try round bananas.”

Elsewhere, the desk also repeated the success of the Mikey Day and Marcello Hernández pairing (from the same weekend as Culhane’s first Carlson impersonation: Red Heart and AERIAL TRAMWAY). This time around, the duo dressed up as two “kamikaze dolphins,” their bit replete with oceanic puns.

“I had hit reef bottom, and my life had no porpoise,” said Hernández’s mammal of why he joined the military.

There’s not a lot of options for dolphins who don’t want to go to Sea World, and Day maintained that if they do a good job, they’ll be “rewarded with 72 sturgeons” in heaven.

A bonus was Hernández once again breaking opposite Day, and Colin Jost mentioning his “huge financial drain” of a ferry.

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Sally Field Credits Jack Nicholson With Career Revival Post Flying Nun

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May 10, 2026

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Throughout the years, two-time Oscar-winning actress Sally Field has made her distaste for her breakout, titular role in The Flying Nun known, but while opening up to People, she revealed it was fellow Actors Studio alum Jack Nicholson who helped get her career going again afterward.

After starring in ABC’s hit fantasy sitcom from 1967 to 1970, Field said she “couldn’t get in a room to audition. I couldn’t get on the list. They thought they already knew what I was. ‘No, thanks. We don’t want any of that.’”

She recalled thinking at the time that “I had to say to myself that if I wasn’t where I wanted to be, I had to get better.” Though the entertainment industry can often be “rotten” and “unfair … it had to be that it was on me to make it different. I felt if I wasn’t doing that, then I was just handing them all the power.”

The Forrest Gump star began studying at the famed Actors Studio under founder and coach Lee Strasberg, alongside such performers like Nicholson. At the time, she believed her situation would change only “when I’m good enough.”

Enter: The Shining actor, who saw her work with Strasberg and put in a good word with late casting director Dianne Crittenden and director Bob Rafelson, calling Field an “undiscovered talent.” The pair granted her an “interview,” her first since her 1965 TV debut Gidget, for Stay Hungry, a dramedy starring Jeff Bridges and an early-career Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“So in some weird way, my theory was right,” Field noted. “I worked at the Actors Studio for so long — and it was so hard — that Jack had seen it and the word spread.”

The 1976 film marked “the beginning of the change” in her Hollywood career, cementing her as a movie star and catapulting her to eventually iconic roles in Smokey and the Bandit, Norma Rae, Places in the Heart and more.

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Charlie Cox On Disney’s Early ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Creative Pivot

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May 10, 2026

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Charlie Cox is giving credit where credit is due, saying he and Daredevil: Born Again co-star Vincent D’Onofrio are “indebted” to Marvel for listening to the duo’s creative input ahead of the show’s Season 1 launch.

Post 2023 WGA strike, it was well-documented that Disney+‘s revival of the beloved anti-hero underwent an overhaul following a determination the project wasn’t working. In a new interview with Josh Horowitz for his Happy Sad Confused podcast, Cox reflected on what happened.

“It’s an odd one to talk about, and I don’t know what was going on behind the scenes,” he recalled, noting there was an “admirable effort” to approach the material differently than what had been portrayed in the three-season Netflix show.

The actor said there was an assumption that the old network model of television would “die a death, they’re dinosaurs, they’re not going to last,” but the reality is that “people love those shows. They’re incredibly addictive; they’re really easy to watch; they’re very, very well written. It’s very difficult to write a well-written procedural.”

“Kevin has actually since told me that they were looking at that model and saying, ‘We would like to have that kind of show on a streaming platform, on Disney+,’” Cox continued. The natural path was focusing on a “lawyer who’s already popular” — enter: Matt Murdock, esquire by day and vigilante by night.

“Once we got into production, it very quickly became apparent that the lessons we’d learnt from the [Ben Affleck] movie that we had got right in the show, we were now almost unlearning a little bit,” Cox explained, “and that the character really does work best in a serialized platform, but also when it’s darker and grittier and there’s less tongue-in-cheek levity.”

Cox concluded, “Huge credit to Marvel and those guys ’cause it takes a huge amount of courage and money to make a U-turn like that. We’re indebted to them, and they really did listen to Vincent and I.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Cox remained mum about Season 3, which is currently shooting, and played coy about a forthcoming Defenders reunion.

“I start off with a beard,” he previewed of the new installment before adding that he “can’t say anything. I’m always terrified of that question.”

As for whether we can expect future crossovers à la Spider-Man: No Way Home and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Cox noted, “Marvel have kind of been clear with me, for now at least, that I’m focusing on the show.”

Watch the full interview below: