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"Saturday Night Live" poked fun at music fans with a sketch about the arc of Weezer’s career, and frontman Rivers Cuomo even weighed in online._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 17, 2018 3:39 PM UTC "Saturday Night Live" poked fun at music fans with a sketch about the arc of Weezer’s career, and frontman Rivers Cuomo even weighed in online. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 17, 2018 3:39 PM UTC The midseason finale of _Saturday Night_ _Live,_ hosted by Matt Damon, featured an unlikely sketch about the rock band [Weezer](http://techland.time.com/2010/07/14/the-weezer-interview/). The sketch, which was aimed at a niche but [vocal audience](http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/07/man-raising-10-million-will-pay-weezer-to-disband/) of music lovers, featured Damon and Leslie Jones as characters you are likely to run into in the bar area of a music festival or amped up on pour-over coffee at a party, vehemently arguing about the arc of Weezer’s musical career and when, exactly, it started to suck. Damon’s character insisted Weezer’s latest new work, the forthcoming _Black Album_, was great, while Jones’ character argued that Weezer’s first two albums were the only good ones and everything went downhill after bassist Matt Sharp left the band. “Real Weezer fans know that they haven’t had a good [album](http://time.com/3476302/weezer-everything-will-be-alright-in-the-end-album-review/) since _Pinkerton_!” she said, causing music fans across the country to either start yelling at their TV or nodding in agreement. On Sunday morning, the band’s frontman [Rivers Cuomo](https://twitter.com/kaminosabredart/status/1074537615880282114) took to Twitter to respond to the sketch with a resounding, “AAGGGGHHHHHHH“ and a mildly NSFW tweet. [He wrote](https://twitter.com/RiversCuomo/status/1074343761537249285), “THEY HAD A WHOLE A– SKIT ABOUT WEEZER AND ME ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AND IM ACTUALLY CRYING AAAGGGGHHHHHHH.” Cuomo wasn’t the only one to weigh in on Twitter, as the sketch seemed to come to life on the social media site as fan’s tweeted out their own opinions on Weezer’s discography. > [](https://twitter.com/imjasondiamond/status/1074329075911663616) > [](https://twitter.com/ReelTalker/status/1074353111484035073) > [](https://twitter.com/InstantAnxiety/status/1074431005698666496) > [](https://twitter.com/GiphyPop/status/1074177929876332544) > [](https://twitter.com/STEEEZUSCHRIST/status/1074333736433577985) > [](https://twitter.com/ASAPVick%5F/status/1074176934010126336) > [](https://twitter.com/kaminosabredart/status/1074537615880282114) Watch the sketch and decide which side of the Weezer debate you end up on: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5481414/snl-weezer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5481414/snl-weezer/"},"headline":"Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Had a Hilarious Response to That SNL Weezer Sketch","datePublished":"2018-12-17T15:39:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-13T08:17:41.493Z","description":"\"I'm actually crying,\" the Weezer frontman tweeted in response to the SNL skit","url":"https://time.com/5481414/snl-weezer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Music","Saturday Night Live"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf72024efcac2c429/698941a54ee2624b4a3139eb/SNLWeezerSketch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf72024efcac2c429/698941a54ee2624b4a3139eb/SNLWeezerSketch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Saturday Night Live - Season 44","caption":"Saturday Night Live - Season 44","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5481414/snl-weezer/","name":"Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Had a Hilarious Response to That SNL Weezer Sketch"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Had a Hilarious Response to That SNL Weezer Sketch","description":"\"Saturday Night Live\" poked fun at music fans with a sketch about the arc of Weezer’s career, and frontman Rivers Cuomo even weighed in online.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XSHrc1MT/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-12-17T18:11:53.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XSHrc1MT.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5481414/snl-weezer/","duration":"PT50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5481414/snl-weezer/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```