But we’ll also ask my mother who is here tonight. It’s pronounced – cat running across keyboard.Īnother thing people want to know is what was I like as a kid? The answer is pretty much the same as now but smaller. SNL is also a great way to learn something new about the host. Which means I could say something cruelly shocking like, “I drive a Prius”. One reason I’ve always loved SNL is because it’s genuinely live. Fun fact, OJ also hosted the show in 79, and again in 96. It’s like producing OJ Simpson to “Murderer”. And now, all the time I hear, “Elon Musk, all he does is smoke weed on podcast.” Like I go to podcast to podcast lighting up joints. Like one time, I smoked weed on Joe Rogan’s pocast. Now, a lot of times people are reduced to the dumbest thing they ever did. Did you think I’m also going to be a chill normal dude? In another tweet, Musk congratulated the NBC show. To anyone offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, called Harrelson’s monologue a good one, as a debate sparked on social media following the late-night show airing. Look, I know I sometimes say or post strange things, but that’s just how my brain works. But I also write things like “69 days after 4/20 again haha”. Those seem like exciting goals, don’t they? Now I think, if I just posted that on Twitter, I’d be fine. I believe that humanity must become a multi planetory space baring civilization. I’d first like to share with you my vision for the future. But don’t worry, I’m pretty good at running ‘human’ in emulation mode. So, I won’t make a lot of eye contact with the cast tonight.
I’m actually making history night as the first person with Aspergers to host SNL. That’s because I don’t always have a lot of intonation or variation in how I speak. Sometimes, after I say something, I have to say “I mean that” so people really know I mean it. It’s an honor to be hosting Saturday Night Live. The main thing on Musk’s mind was cryptocurrency, namely Dogecoin, the meme-turned moneymaker which he mentioned during his monologue and again during a “Weekend Update” segment where he appeared as a crypto expert and the self-anointed “Dogefather.” Eyes were on the currency’s value over the course of the episode, and it fluctuated from around 66 cents at the beginning of the episode to 50 cents midway through to around 56 cents by evening’s end.Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, Elon Musk.Įlon: Thank you. (No overt Big 3 shots, although a passing reference was made to Dodge’s Hellcat in one sketch, while Lucid Motors, Ford’s Mustang Mach-E and Volkswagen’s ID.4 were featured in advertisements during the show’s breaks.) Tesla was mentioned - a Tesla Supercharger station made a brief cameo in an Old West sketch - and Musk joked about driving a Toyota Prius during his monologue.
Over the course of the 90-minute episode, Musk appeared as a doctor in a sketch titled “Gen Z Hospital,” where he spoke in youthful slang to a group of Zoomers as a nervous party guest in a pretaped sketch about post-quarantine get-togethers as himself in SpaceX mode, in a sketch featuring Pete Davidson’s clueless recurring character, Chad and as “Super Mario” villain Wario in a “Mario”-themed courtroom sketch. Athletes and a handful of celeb-types - looking at you, Paris Hilton - have fared much worse on the Studio 8H stage, and his natural showmanship set a high bar for any other CEOs who may one day get the call. (Much was made of cast members being given the option to skip the episode, although none appeared to opt out of the evening.)Įven musical guest Miley Cyrus seemed to soften the impending blow during the show’s cold open, covering Dolly Parton’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning,” with its closing refrain of “everything’s gonna be all right, it’s gonna be OK.”Ĭybertruck in NYC /Q7JnSo1QoXĪnd it was OK, with Musk dulling his edge, making fun of his own awkwardness - “I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship,” he said during his opening monologue, “Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?” - and coming off as an adequate performer. Rolling Stone called it a low point for the 46-year-old show before he even stepped on stage, and there were reports that cast members were unhappy with the appearance of the divisive zillionaire. The appearance of Musk - the CEO of Tesla and the founder of SpaceX, not to mention an internet troll, cryptocurrency champion and the world’s third-richest human being - stirred the pot from the moment it was announced two weeks ago. It was, in the end, a decent but rather uneventful evening, neither the flaming car wreck his detractors expected or edgy show for which his fans were hoping.
(Will Heath/NBC via Associated Press)Įlon Musk’s “Saturday Night Live” episode on May 8 was neither controversial nor disruptive. Elon Musk delivers his opening monologue on "Saturday Night Live" May 8.
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