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"Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner&amp;apos;s marriage is just fine, thank you very much -- and to prove it, the couple appeared together on the May 18 season finale of Saturday Night Live. Taking the stage for his opening monologue, the Argo director (and five-time SNL host) addressed his &amp;quot;completely terrifying&amp;quot; Oscars acceptance speech, in which he called his marriage to Garner &amp;quot;work.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;You may remember that in my speech, I thanked my wife, while also saying that the essence of marriage is work,&amp;quot; he explained, noting that some &amp;quot;uncharitable souls&amp;quot; took that to mean &amp;quot;manual labor.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s not it,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;You define what&amp;apos;s important to you by what you dedicate your time to.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nAffleck, 40, then invited his wife of more than seven years to join him onstage. Rocking a sexy little black dress, the Butter star appeared next to him to explain that &amp;quot;work&amp;quot; is a word the two use when they talk privately about their commitment to one another -- though why he had to &amp;quot;share it live to a billion people&amp;quot; was beyond her.&amp;#xA0;\r\nAsked what word she would have used instead, Garner quipped, &amp;quot;Gift! I would have said, &amp;apos;Thank you to my wife, our marriage is a gift!&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe couple -- who have three kids together -- then engaged in a bit of playful banter about who actually does the work in their marriage, after which a seemingly sincere Affleck told his wife how he wished he&amp;apos;d ended his Oscars speech. &amp;quot;You&amp;apos;re my angel, my life, my world,&amp;quot; he gushed.\r\nGarner, 41, was unimpressed. &amp;quot;You&amp;apos;re reading that,&amp;quot; she deadpanned, pointing to a man holding a cue card in the wings.\r\nWatch the entire sketch above!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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