Ben Affleck Mocks Keith Olbermann Saturday Night Live (SNL) Video

Politico's Michael Calderone is reporting that Saturday Night Live is rehearsing a skit "portraying Olbermann as a deranged person living at home with his mother." A source at the rehearsal that was closed to the public says that Affleck, who is playing Keith Olbermann, became uncomfortable when Olbermann himself showed up to watch.

On Saturday night, Ben Affleck is hosting "SNL" for the 4th time in his career and rumors are swirling that Senator John McCain will be making a surprise visit. Tomorrow night's broadcast is shaping up to make lots of headlines leading into the November 4th election.

In fact, McCain's possible appearance could give him a much needed last minute boost in the polls, as it did during the Democratic primaries when Tina Fey endorsed Hillary Clinton. Before that February 24th episode, Clinton was losing ground in her pursuit for the necessary delegates to win the Democratic nomination, but Fey's endorsement may have boosted Clinton to prolonging victories in Texas and Ohio days later on the March 4th primary.

McCain has long been friendly with SNL, hosting the show in 2002 and making various guest appearances over the years. If McCain is able to take some shots at the liberal commentator Keith Olbermann, Barack Obama's primetime infomercial, and gain some positive headlines, he could gain some momentum for the big showdown on Tuesday.

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Ben Affleck : (Celebrity In Spotlight)

Benjamin Géza Affleck is an American Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor, director, an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film Good Will Hunting, and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films.Actor, writer, and director Ben Affleck hit the Hollywood radar in 1997 as the co-writer and co-star of “Good Will Hunting,” earning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with childhood best friend Matt Damon.

In fact, the seemingly overnight ascent to stardom in tandem with Damon, became one of the great “Hollywood” stories” of all time – right up there with Lana Turner being discovered at Schwab’s Drugstore. Flying past the more understated Damon in terms of initial popularity and box office, the handsome, chiseled Affleck went on to achieve box office gold in uneven blockbusters like “Armageddon” (1998), “Pearl Harbor” (2001) and “Daredevil” (2003), as well as quirky Kevin Smith comedies “Chasing Amy” (1997) and “Dogma” (1999).But it was his extracurricular activities – dating famous actresses and ending up in rehab – that made him a magnet for media attention.

His overexposed romance with actress-singer Jennifer Lopez – collectively known as “Bennifer” – and a string of flops threatened to banish Affleck to B-film status until concerted efforts to reclaim his private life and his celebrated directorial debut “Gone Baby Gone” (2007) proved that perhaps Affleck’s most underused talent was his ability to write his own happy ending.While promoting the film’s fall 2007 release, Affleck was again eager to address the 2008 presidential elections, voicing support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama and critiquing the incumbent administration on Fox News, MSNBC, and “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO, 2003- ), among others.

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