Mark Zuckerberg Makes An SNL Appearance With Jesse Eisenberg [video]

If you weren’t around a TV Saturday night you may have missed Mark Zuckerberg making a significant cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live. Why was it so significant? Well, it just so happened that Jesse Eisenberg, the actor that portrayed him on “The Social Network,” was hosting that evening. Zuckerberg has had a tumultuous history with the film; first refusing to see it, then taking the entire Facebook company to view the film opening night. It appears he’s finally come full circle now by becoming on screen buddies with his doppelganger, Eisenberg, and admitting the movie was “interesting.”

Now, the haters are going to say that Zuckerberg came off as awkward and robotic, but you know what? It’s live sketch comedy television! You or I would probably end up blubbering like Bertie from “The King’s Speech” if we were in that situation. At least the Zuck’s got some public speaking reps from doing those Facebook press events.

Either way, it was a brilliant PR move on everyone’s part. Zuckerberg gets some good press for having a sense of humor, NBC gets their second-highest rated episode of SNL this season, and “The Social Network” gets more eyeballs on Jesse Eisenberg as they make their Academy Awards push.

Watch Mark Zuckerberg crash Jesse Eisenberg’s SNL Monologue:

(courtesy of NBC.com)