How do a fart doctor, Black Snape, Barron Trump, a “sticky family,” and two Bill Clintons add up to the perfect Saturday Night Live sketch?
(If they do at all?)
In a promo for this weekend’s penultimate Season 51 episode, three-time host Matt Damon saunters up to home base, where he finds Sarah Sherman and Jeremy Culhane staring, defeatedly, at a white board filled with myriad possible sketch elements.
“We’re trying to figure out the perfect SNL sketch,” Sherman explains to Damon. “Experts have been trying to crack this for years.”
Former cast member (and May 16 finale host) Will Ferrell “got close once,” Culhane notes, “but apparently it drove him insane.”
Damon suggests that Sherman and Culhane, with their unsolved “perfect sketch” formula, are actually attempting a callback to Good Will Hunting, the acclaimed film he co-wrote and starred in with Ben Affleck. But the SNL duo insist they’ve never seen the 30-year-old motion picture.
“It’s hopeless, anyway,” Sherman shrugs as she and Culhane walk away in defeat.
Now alone, Damon takes Dry Erase marker in hand and, making like the genius Will Hunting, gets to poring over the unsolved equation.
Come the next morning, Sherman and Culhane return to home base and regard with some amazement the updated white board.
Has the mystery of the perfect sketch finally been cracked, as an arriving Damon suggests?
“No. Not even a little bit!” scoffs Culhane.
Press play above to see what Damon came up with, involving a “stoner carrot,” a “bisexual cigarette talk show,” and other incongruous elements.
