{"id":474011,"date":"2026-05-08T01:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474011\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:49:09","slug":"snl-promo-matt-damon-likes-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474011\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217; Promo: Matt Damon Likes Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNearly 30 years after his titular Good Will Hunting character memorably burned a snooty college dude by asking if he liked apples, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-damon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-damon\" data-tag=\"matt-damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a> is on the receiving end of that same query in a bit promoting his Saturday Night Live hosting gig this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cHey Matt, do you like apples?\u201d castmember Ben Marshall asks Damon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cCome on, man, don\u2019t do this,\u201d replies Damon, who\u2019s probably heard the question thousands of times from fans and passersby on the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhat? I\u2019m just asking a question,\u201d retorts Marshall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter a deep exhale, a visibly weary Damon answers, \u201cFine. Fine. Yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSuffice it to say, Marshall\u2019s next line takes Damon by surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDamon returns to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a>\u00a0for his third time as host on May 9 with musical guest Noah Kahan for his second go-round. The Oscar winner next will be seen in Christopher Nolan\u2019s\u00a0The Odyssey,\u00a0which hits theaters July 17. Grammy nominee Kahan\u2019s fourth album,\u00a0The Great Divide, will be released April 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn apparently insane Will Ferrell, incidentally, returns for his sixth time as host on season 51 finale May 16, with Paul McCartney, returning for his fifth time as musical guest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 30 years after his titular Good Will Hunting character memorably burned a snooty college dude by asking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,8000,15460,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-474011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-matt-damon","13":"tag-snl","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116536447353057120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}