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

Summary

  • Jeremy Culhane performed an impression of Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live depicting the CEO as an awkward loser attempting to befriend Weekend Update hosts.
  • The sketch references Musk spending half a billion dollars on midterm candidates who lost and his subsequent announcement to halt Cybertruck production.
  • Colin Jost questioned Musk about moving companies to Texas to avoid taxes only for Texas to be run by Democrats, to which the character replied "Bad?".
  • Culhane's character asked his chatbot Grok to roast him, with Grok describing Musk as "the worst thing South Africa has ever done" and suggesting he has too few children.
  • Jane Wickline previously portrayed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as a stuttering prophet of AI doom.
  • James Austin Johnson caricatured Kevin O'Leary as wanting to buy 40,000 acres of land to replace it with a loud computer that steals jobs.

SNL seems to have its knives out for tech executives.

Keywords
Media & Entertainment,Elon Musk,Saturday night live