Saturday Night Live ended 2016 the way it began: delayed by an overlong football game. Back in January, the strenuously subdued Adam Driver made his SNL debut, fresh off his enshrinement in the Star Wars Hall of Fame as enjoyably whiny Darth Vader-in-training, Kylo Ren. The younger Affleck — whose comedy background primarily consists of appearing the oh-so-‘90s indie movie, 200 Cigarettes, and directing the strenuously unfunny Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary, I’m Still Here — seemed to recognize the incongruity of his presence in Studio 8H.
