# Ben Affleck and a Dead Hooker? Wha? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399 "2004-03-25T19:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/1 "2004-03-25T19:07:49Z")
There were a couple of references to Ben Affleck and a dead hooker in _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_. I just wrote it off as a Kevin Smith inside joke and happily accepted that I’d been whooshed. …Until _Saturday Night Live_ made references to this a couple of weeks ago when Affleck was a guest host (I loved the bit with the Mary-Kate and Ashfleck T-shirt). So, uh, what happened? TIA ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/2 "2004-03-25T19:17:24Z")
When asked in an interview about how he relates to Matt Damon, he said “If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be first person I’d call.” It became something of a meme. You _know_ that’s going to be in the 2023 edition of _Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations_ under “Friendship.” ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/3 "2004-03-25T19:30:10Z")
I saw both the movie and that episode, and didn’t really make the connection. Looking at the [transcripts](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/03/03o.phtml) for the episode, it looks like a coincidence. A very poorly written coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/4 "2004-03-25T20:13:52Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > When asked in an interview about how he relates to Matt Damon, he said “If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be first person I’d call.” > > It became something of a meme. > > You _know_ that’s going to be in the 2023 edition of _Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations_ under “Friendship.” I think the rest of the story is that when Matt Damen was asked the same question and told of Ben’s response, Matt said, “Ben’s the kind of friend who would have a dead hooker in his hotel room.” Sorry no cite; I think it was Oprah or something along those lines, back in the Good Will Hunting days. Not sure if that is what the movie/SNL is referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/5 "2004-03-25T20:19:34Z")
I don’t watch _Saturday Night Live_ – (it puts the “turd” in “Saturday”) – but according to [TVTome](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/EpisodeReviewPage/showid-365/epid-304130/blockid-136210/): > [@](#): > > This spoof features an expatriate businessman (SM) who calls a friend to let him know that he woke up next to a dead hooker. From _Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back_: > [@](#): > > Security Guard: “Echo Base I’ve got a 10-07, two unauthorized on the lot, requesting backup.” > Echo Base: “I thought that was a 10-82?” > Security Guard: “No sir, a 10-82 is disappearing a dead hooker from Ben Affleck’s trailer.” > Echo Base: “Oh, that Affleck. Backup’s on the way.” From an [interview on the Oprah Winfrey show](http://www.garinungkadol.com/a-log/ben/archives/1998/april/000545.php), 1998: > [@](#): > > Oprah Winfrey: I read somewhere that you said that you guys are such good friends, that he would be the first one you call if you woke up and there was– > > Ben Affleck: A dead hooker in my hotel room at 3 am. I said that to people magazine, and they wouldn’t print it. They called me up like “hi, we’re doing a profile on Matt Damon and we were wondering, what do you think of Matt. What’s your friendship like?” and I said Matt’s the first guy I would call if I woke up in a hotel room with a dead hooker. “Thank you, thank you very much.” It’s from The Godfather, you know, those two guys, the senator and they put the hooker in his room and then they kill her and then they set him up. It was a reference. It hasn’t happened to me, but if it did happen to me. I would call Matt. That’s friendship. I don’t think it’s coincidence – it’s a running joke. _previews_ Something like that, **jeevwoman** : > [@](#): > > Oprah Winfrey (To Matt): And what kind of friend is he? > Matt Damon: You know, he’s a pretty good friend. > Ben Affleck: I’m the kind of friend who will call you up at 3 in the morning and say there’s a dead hooker in my room. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/6 "2004-03-25T22:58:32Z")
This does put me in mind of a comedian whose name escapes me. He defined a “good” friend as the one who’d come to the police station at 3 a.m. to bail you out. If you had a “great” friend, though, his ass’d be in jail right next to yours. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/7 "2004-03-25T23:24:10Z")
“Good friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.” ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/8 "2004-03-26T02:51:44Z")
Look, Jennifer Lopez may not be “pure” but she’s hardly a hooker. And it’s only her career that’s dead. Plus, they aren’t even a couple anymore. What? Oh! Pardon me… (“Jersey Girl” is looking to tank big time. Things haven’t been good lately for Ben and Kevin. If Matt Damon was a real friend, he’d clean up that mess now!) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-affleck-and-a-dead-hooker-wha/236399/9 "2004-03-26T03:03:41Z")
Affleck: No, because I wasn’t _with_ a hooker today! Ah-_ **hah** _!" --From the following scene on the set of “Good Will Hunting 2”