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    <em>Saturday Night Live </em>Mocks Brett Kavanaugh the Frat Bro

    In its first cold open of the season, the show cast Matt Damon to play the Supreme Court nominee as a raging and whining teenager. But the sketch rang hollow in some ways.
    by David Sims Sep 30, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: NBC

    It was telling that Saturday Night Live began the first sketch of its new season in the middle of the Senate’s recent hearing on the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. And revealing, too, that the cold open was concerned entirely with Kavanaugh, and not Christine Blasey Ford, who was mentioned but not depicted in the sketch.

    “We’ve heard from the alleged victim, but now it’s time to hear from the hero,” said Senator Chuck Grassley (Alex Moffat). Ford,’s long line of taking on topical roles. Two days after a in American political history, the country’s biggest comedy show returned to the airwaves and attempted to wring some satire from it.

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