Pete Hegseth and Brett Kavanaugh go drinking in ‘SNL’ Cold Open
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 war in Iran 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 in a barstool lamenting that no one in the Trump administration can keep up with him drink for drink. That is, until Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh arrives, played by this weekend’s host Matt Damon.
The two men 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 that the Iranian conflict is ending and leaving him without a reason to exist, while Kavanaugh is in turmoil over the “male loneliness epidemic.” Hard night for powerful men.
However, things take a chaotic turn when Aziz Ansari returns as FBI Director Kash Patel, instantly shifting the energy from a sad drunk to a dangerous drunk. Before long, the trio is floating the idea of a third Trump term.
