{"id":65872,"date":"2026-05-11T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65872\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:19:13","slug":"martins-tavern-in-georgetown-featured-on-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65872\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin\u2019s Tavern in Georgetown featured on \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you caught the latest &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; episode on NBC, you may have seen a familiar D.C. restaurant featured as the show began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>If you caught the latest \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d episode on NBC, you may have seen a familiar D.C. restaurant featured as the show began.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s cold open from New York was set in what was identified in the sketch as Martin\u2019s Tavern in Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p>The sketch made light of allegations of excessive drinking involving three Washington figures:<br \/>FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. All three men have publicly denied the claims referenced.\n<\/p>\n<p>Patel was played by actor and comedian Aziz Ansari, Hegseth was played by \u2018Weekend Update\u2019 co-anchored Colin Jost, and Kavanaugh was played by actor Matt Damon, who hosted the episode.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d called the sketch \u201cA Secretary of War, a Supreme Court Justice, and an FBI Director walk into a bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">\u00a9 2026 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you caught the latest &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; episode on NBC, you may have seen a familiar D.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[120],"tags":[33444,3428,9217,38624,6429,38625,37949,18,9257,9219],"class_list":["post-65872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pete-hegseth","tag-aziz-ansari","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-colin-jost","tag-georgetown","tag-kash-patel","tag-martins-tavern","tag-matt-damon","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116554967634551119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}