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Matt Damon's spoof of angry Brett Kavanaugh in Saturday Night Live is not something to miss

The NBC sketch series in their 44th season premiere showed Matt Damon portraying an angry Kavanaugh yelling at the Senate committee.

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'Saturday Night Live' on Saturday took their show's act to another level when they portrayed the US Senate hearing of the US Supreme Court nomimee Brett Kavanaugh.

The NBC sketch series in their 44th season premiere showed Matt Damon portraying an angry Kavanaugh yelling at the Senate committee. "WHAT?! Let me tell you this, I'm going to start at an 11 then I'm going to take it to a 15 real quick! This is my speech. There are others like it, but this is mine. I wrote it myself last night while screaming into an empty bag of Doritos.”," Damon said in the opening scene.

The show took a dig at Kavanaugh's obsession for beer that also went viral on social media earlier. Damon's Kavanaugh said, "I'm a keg is half full kind of guy, but what I've seen from the monsters on this committee makes me want to puke ... and not from beer! Dr Ford has no evidence"

If that's not all, Damon's Kavanaugh also took a dig at the US Supreme Court nominee for not knowing the meaning of word 'stop'.

'I don't know the meaning of the word 'stop', to quote my hero Clint Eastwood's character in Gran Torino - 'Get the hell off my lawn', now let's do this!," Damon's Kavanaugh screamed.

 

Earlier on Thursday, Brett Kavanaugh, who is fighting to salvage his US Supreme Court nomination, angrily and tearfully denied on Thursday a university professor's accusation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago and complained about a "political hit" after she told a dramatic Senate hearing she was "100 per cent certain" he did it.

Christine Blasey Ford, her voice sometimes cracking with emotion, appeared in public for the first time to detail her allegation against Kavanaugh, a conservative federal appeals court judge chosen by President Donald Trump for a lifetime job on the top US court. Ford told the committee she feared Kavanaugh would rape and accidentally kill her during the alleged assault when both where high school students in Maryland.

Kavanaugh testified after Ford finished her appearance, and they were never in the hearing room together.

"I swear today, under oath, before the Senate and the nation, before my family and God, I am innocent of this charge," Kavanaugh told the Judiciary Committee.

The clash pitted her word against his. Members of the Senate, controlled 51-49 by Trump's fellow Republicans, must now decide whether to vote to confirm him after the extraordinary nearly nine-hour-long hearing. Senate Republicans planned to meet on Thursday night to discuss the next steps on the nomination.

Calling himself a victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination," Kavanaugh, speaking passionately, said he "unequivocally and categorically" denied Ford's allegation.

"I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process," Kavanaugh added.

Kavanaugh sharply attacked Democratic senators, calling himself the victim of "a calculated and orchestrated political hit" fuelled by anger on the left at Trump's 2016 election win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, his conservative judicial record and revenge on behalf of Clinton and her husband Bill.

Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, said over four hours of testimony that a drunken Kavanaugh attacked her and tried to remove her clothing at a gathering of teenagers when he was 17 years old and she was 15 in 1982.

The hearing, which has riveted Americans and intensified the political polarization in the United States, occurred against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault.

"With what degree of certainty do you believe Brett Kavanaugh assaulted you?" Democratic Senator Richard Durbin asked Ford.

"One hundred percent," she replied, remaining firm and unruffled through hours of testimony even under questioning by a sex crimes prosecutor hired by the committee's Republicans.

For his part, Kavanaugh testified he was "100 percent certain" none of the alleged incidents of sexual misconduct occurred.

Ford said "absolutely not" when Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein asked her if it could be a case of mistaken identity, as Kavanaugh has suggested.

Democrats lauded Ford's testimony as credible, brave and, in the words of Senator Cory Booker, "nothing short of heroic."

"I want to thank you for your courage. And I want to tell you I believe you. ... And I believe many Americans across the country believe you," Democratic Senator Kamala Harris said.

While some Republicans and Trump have called the allegations by Ford and the two other women part of a smear campaign, Ford told the committee she had no political motivation, adding, "I am an independent person and I am no pawn."

Ford was seated at a table in the packed hearing room flanked by her lawyers, facing a bank of senators. Cameras from news photographers clicked as she entered the room and took her seat, smiling nervously. Ford told the senators she was "terrified" to testify but felt it was her civic duty to come forward.

"Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes. He had a hard time because he was very inebriated and because I was wearing a one-piece bathing suit under my clothing. I believed he was going to rape me. I tried to yell for help," Ford said, adding that Kavanaugh and a friend of his, Mark Judge, were "drunkenly laughing during the attack."

Democratic senators sought to score political points during their five minutes apiece of questioning Ford. The panel's Republican senators, all men, did not question her, assigning that task to Rachel Mitchell, a sex crimes prosecutor.

While Mitchell sought to probe Ford's account including any gaps in her story, her questioning seemed disjointed. She took turns with the Democratic senators to ask questions in five-minute segments, disrupting her flow. During Kavanaugh's testimony, Republican senators ditched Mitchell and asked their own questions.

The controversy has unfolded just weeks ahead of the Nov. 6 congressional elections in which Democrats are trying to seize control of Congress from the Republicans. 

Kavanaugh's confirmation would cement conservative control of the high court as Trump moves to shift it and the broader federal judiciary to the right.

(With Reuters inputs)

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