SNL has a new impression of Elon Musk, ‘the worst thing South Africa has ever done’

Saturday Night Live formed subordinate Jeremy Culhane unveiled his content of Elon Musk past night, depicting the SpaceX and Tesla CEO arsenic an awkward loser who fumbles his effort to befriend the hosts of Weekend Update.

This isn’t the archetypal clip the amusement has lampooned the world’s richest antheral (and one-time SNL host), with Mike Myers stopping by occasionally to wield a chainsaw earlier freezing and muttering, “Glitch!” 

Since Musk was successful the quality this week for spending fractional a cardinal dollars connected candidates who mislaid successful the midterms, past announcing plans to halt Cybertruck production, it’s possibly not astonishing that Culhane’s mentation is simply a small little obnoxious and a small much hopeless to beryllium liked, doing his champion to laughter disconnected his setbacks and punctual the audience, “My car did a flip!”

Eventually, Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost asks a pointed question astir Musk’s week: “You moved to Texas due to the fact that California was tally by Democrats. You moved each your companies to Texas due to the fact that you didn’t privation to wage taxes. You adjacent built your ain municipality successful Texas. And present Texas is tally by Democrats. Now you’re going to person to wage taxes. So however does that marque you feel?”

Culhane nods on with each measurement of the question, past answers, “Bad?”

To amusement that he’s a bully athletics astir each this, Culhane besides asks his chatbot Grok to bash “an epic vulgar roast of me, Elon Musk.” Grok delivers, describing Musk arsenic “the worst happening South Africa has ever done” and suggesting, “Maybe if you person 100 much kids, one of them volition speech to you.”

SNL seems to person its knives retired for tech executives this season, starting with Jane Wickline’s content of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei arsenic a stuttering prophet of AI doom.

A mates weeks later, James Austin Johnson caricatured information halfway backer/”Marty Supreme” co-star Kevin O’Leary. Asked astir the wide information halfway backlash, Johnson-as-O’Leary smoothly replies, “All I privation is to bargain up 40,000 acres of God’s untouched splendor and regenerate it with a precise large machine that steals your job.”