Last night, Jesse Eisenberg—just nominated for an Oscar for playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network— hosted Saturday Night Live... and Zuckerberg appeared during the monologue. The social networking guru was first shown backstage with Lorne Michaels, while Eisenberg and Andy Samberg, SNL's in-house Zuckerberg, were onstage and complained, "That guy's like my evil twin. And that's just Andy Samberg. C'mon. Those guys are such nerds. I invented poking!" Click through for video and other videos of sketches from the show, including "The Bride of Blackenstein," when an exploration of static electricity becomes an exploration of young sexuality, a John Waters-inspired digital short, d more.
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