Saturday Night Live cast member Jeremy Culhane unveiled his impression of Elon Musk last night, portraying the SpaceX and Tesla CEO as an awkward loser fumbling his attempt to free the Weekend Update host.
This isn’t the first time the show has spotlighted the world’s richest man (and one-time SNL host), with Mike Myers occasionally dropping by to turn a chainsaw before freezing and muttering, “Glitch!”
Since Musk was in the news this week for spending half a billion dollars on candidates who lost in the midterms, and then announced plans to stop production of the Cybertruck, it’s perhaps not surprising that Culhane’s version is a little less unnecessary and a little more desperate to be liked, doing his best to laugh off his backlash, “My car flipped!”
Finally, Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost asks a pointed question about Musk’s week: “You moved to Texas because California was run by Democrats. You moved all your companies to Texas because you didn’t want to pay taxes. You even built your own city in Texas. And now Texas is run by Democrats. Now you have to pay taxes. So how do you feel about that?”
Culhane nods with each step of the question, then replies, “Bad?”
To show he’s being a good sport about it all, Culhane also asks his chatbot Grok “an epic vulgar roast from me, Elon Musk.” Grok delivers, describing Musk as “the worst thing South Africa has ever done” and suggesting: “Maybe if you have 100 more kids, one of them will talk to you.”
This week’s episode also features a spoof of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything,” featuring Jane Wickline’s incredible take on the Theranos founder (though most of the jokes focus on episode host Druski).
SNL seems to have its knives out for tech executives this season, starting with Wickline’s impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as a stuttering prophet of AI doom.
A few weeks later, James Austin Johnson caricatured data center backer/”Marty Supreme” co-star Kevin O’Leary. Asked about the widespread public opposition to data centers, Johnson-as-O’Leary replies smoothly: “All I want is to buy 40,000 acres of God’s pristine splendor and replace it with a very loud computer that steals your work.”
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