Maybe I’m the last person under 80 to have seen this clip from last Saturday night’s SNL intro, except that the demonstrations in Egypt were keeping some folks’ TV-eyes glued to other channels. This morning, while I was reading about the NY state budget with CNN droning in the background, the cable news broke with a bit on Jesse Eisenberg meeting Mark Zuckerberg on NBC’s stage elsewhere in Manhattan. I looked up and knew immediately I’d have easy lesson for the day.
Here’s the video, Jessie Eisenberg meets Mark Zuckerberg on SNL:
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Jesse Eisenberg “Monologue,” courtesy of NBC
Eisenberg is the actor who portrays Zuckerberg in the Social Network, a movie about Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook. It’s an emotionally complex bio-pic about a 26 year old man who’s alive and processing all of this information about his self as others perceive him, in real-time.
What’s medical in the SNL clip?
Well, Eisenberg says he already knows something about women’s reproductive organs: “For example, I know that every 28 days females will shed their uterine lining,” he shares, awkwardly. OK, it’s a stretch. Still, it’s reassuring that he and his peers are aware of these things of human biology, and that there’s still some sex ed in our schools, or somewhere.
But that’s not the point, which is that the two appear to get over it. And guess who gets to say, “Live, from New York. It’s Saturday night!”? Zuckerberg is funny, in a poking sort of way, and ends up sort-of in control, smiling. Really you should watch the video, to see just how well they get along in the end, or at least for the time being.
The boys hug at the end of the program, in a separate segment.
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