Matt Damon, Ben Affleck take on Berkshire County town names in Tonight Show skit | Local News
Can three guys from Boston successfully pronounce the names of every city and town in the Berkshires?
Turns out, the answer’s yes.
For a Tuesday evening bit on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” film stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck joined Fallon in reciting all 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts with as much Bostonian gusto as possible.
Three guys from Boston (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jimmy Fallon) say every town and city in Massachusetts.
Styled as “Three Guys from Boston,” the trio embraced the personas of world-weary Boston natives as they took turns listing the Commonwealth’s municipalities in alphabetical order with exaggerated regional pronunciation. (While decked out in their best Red Sox gear and winter accessories, of course.)
Fallon, Affleck and Damon named the 32 cities and towns in Berkshire County, all the way from Adams to Windsor.
As the list went on, one town name in particular left an impression.
“Peru, really?” Affleck quips at one point, apparently taken aback at the fact a town in the Berkshires shares its name with a country in South America. He laughs briefly before continuing on to “Petersham.”
During the late-night sketch on Tuesday, Ben Affleck appeared thrown that there was a town of Peru in the Commonwealth, saying “Peru … really?”
Overall, the trio’s pronunciations of the state’s westernmost cities and towns were admirable. Damon lands a “Tyringham” that wouldn’t sound out of place to locals, and Affleck deftly eschews the “R” in “Alford.”
The last town Fallon named happened to be a triumphant “Windsor,” coincidentally the last Berkshire town on the list. He also had the honor of being the one to name Pittsfield, the most populous city in the county.
But even Bostonians make mistakes. Eagle-eyed Berkshirites might notice that at least one town appears to have fallen through the cracks in the initial taping of the skit, as Damon’s reading of “Sandisfield” appears to have been conspicuously dubbed in after the fact.
Hopefully, residents of Sandisfield take solace in the fact that someone caught the omission before the final cut. And if they still need to settle the score, they can always pronounce Damon’s native “Cambridge” the wrong way.
