Saturday Night Live cast member Jeremy Culhane revealed his Elon Musk impression last night, portraying the SpaceX and Tesla CEO as an awkward loser who fails in his attempt to befriend the Weekend Update hosts.
This isn’t the first time the show has made fun of the world’s richest man (and former SNL host), with Mike Myers occasionally stopping by to wield a chainsaw before freezing and muttering “Glitch!”
Since Musk made headlines this week for spending half a billion dollars on candidates who lost mid-terms and then announcing plans to halt production of the Cybertruck, perhaps it’s not surprising that Culhane’s version is a little less obnoxious and a little more desperate to be liked, doing his best to laugh at his setbacks and remind the public, “My car jumped!”
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 businesses 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’re going to have to pay taxes. So what does that make you?”
Culhane nods at each stage of the question, then responds: “Bad?
To show that he’s a good sport in all this, Culhane also has his chatbot Grok do “an epic dirty roast of me, Elon Musk.” Grok delivers on his promises, 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 featured a parody of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything,” featuring Jane Wickline’s odd take on the Theranos founder (although most of the jokes focused on the episode’s 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 partner and “Marty Supreme” co-star Kevin O’Leary. Asked about widespread public opposition to data centers, Johnson-as-O’Leary responds bluntly: “All I want to do is buy 40,000 acres of God’s untouched splendor and replace it with a very noisy computer that steals your work.” »
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