Noah Kahan Trades ‘Stick Season’ for ‘Skit Season’ in SNL Promos With Matt Damon

Noah Kahan didn’t just announce a TV appearance — he turned it into a running gag. In fresh promos for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, the singer-songwriter and host Matt Damon trade easy rapport and one very deliberate pun that riffs on Kahan’s breakout single.

Noah Kahan, Matt Damon and Ben Marshall in ‘SNL’ promos
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The exchange is plain and oddly earnest. “This is so exciting. I’ve always wanted to do something with Matt and Ben,” Kahan says, and SNL castmember Ben Marshall answers with a friendly, “Aw, thanks so much, man. That’s so cool.” Kahan quickly corrects himself: “I’m sorry, I meant Ben Affleck.” Marshall, baffled, replies, “Why would you bring that up now, right?” Kahan deadpans back that it’s the first time he’s meeting Damon.

Damon slides in with an invitation: “We’d actually love to do something with you.” Kahan, predictably, is thrilled: “Hell yeah, amazing. Thank you. Huge fan!”

Then comes the bit that will get clipped and shared: Marshall tries a Kahan-inspired knock-knock of a joke. “More like Skit Season,” he offers, leaning on the title of Kahan’s breakthrough song “Stick Season,” the title track from his 2022 album. Damon scolds him with mock disbelief: “This is your first-ever promo and you blow it on ‘Skit Season’?” Kahan chimes in, “Come on, you’re better than that, Ben.” Marshall keeps trying — “more like Noah Ka-haha-han” — and somehow both Damon and Kahan end up laughing at the flub.

There’s real context behind the gag. Kahan is back on SNL as musical guest for the second time — his first appearance was in December 2023 — and he’s plugging a new record. His fourth studio album, The Great Divide, was just released and debuts atop the Billboard 200 this week, a tidy bit of momentum to bring into Studio 8H.

Damon is no stranger to the stage either. This will be his third time hosting SNL over the span of 25 years, after stints in October 2022 and December 2018. In the spot, Kahan does the math aloud and jokes that, at this pace, Damon should be joining SNL’s Five-Timers Club around 2052.

Saturday Night Live airs at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and streams on Peacock. It’s a compact, silly promo — the kind of small, self-aware moment that gets fans talking and teases what the live show might lean into on Saturday night.