"I'm excited for my Mother's Day gift," his mother said.
Toward the end of his monologue, Musk's mother, Maye, joined him. He also disclosed he has Asperger's syndrome, saying he's the first person with Asperger's to host the show. "Or at least," he joked, "the first person to admit it." ( Twitter was quick to note that "SNL" alum Dan Aykroyd revealed his diagnosis in 2013, a decade after hosting the show.) Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?" "To anyone I've offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars on a rocket ship. "I know I sometimes say or post strange things but that's just how my brain works," the billionaire Tesla CEO said, referring to his confounding social media presence. But as far as his opening monologue went and throughout the episode, he proved quite the comedian. We didn't know what to expect when " Saturday Night Live" announced Elon Musk would host its May 8 episode. PT on NBC.Ĭynthia Littleton contributed to this report.Watch Video: 'SNL': Elon Musk hosts, Miley Cyrus honors Dolly Parton, her godmother “Saturday Night Live” airs live coast-to-coast Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. Taking place the night before Mother’s Day, this episode has historically been treated as a Mother’s Day episode, with special songs and sketches dedicated to and often featuring cast members’ mothers.įor the first time ever, “Saturday Night Live” was also live-streamed on YouTube in more than 100 countries. On “The Breakfast Club,” Michael Che acknowledged that Musk “is a polarizing guy” but said that was what “makes the show interesting.” He also said he felt that if other one-percenters, such as Oprah or Tyler Perry were coming on the show, “we’d all be excited about it.” (Both Oprah Winfrey and Perry do have performing backgrounds, though.) Pete Davidson called Musk “the guy that makes the earth better kinda and makes cool things and sends people to Mars” on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” In the week leading up to the show, though, various cast members appeared on talk shows and attempted to smooth over concerns. Bernie Sanders which called out the “moral obscenity” of the wealth distribution in America, which also noted “the 50 wealthiest people in America today own more wealth than the bottom half of our people.” Chris Redd retweeted Musk’s post about “throwing out some skit ideas,” pointing out that he should be calling them “sketches,” not skits.
In a now-deleted social media post, Aidy Bryant, for example, re-shared a message from Sen. The initial announcement came with criticism, as viewers, critics and even some of the show’s own cast members alike seemed to question the choice of host. Musk made his hosting debut on the May 8 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which was the first of the three final episodes of the 46th season and the first one back after a few weeks off. Mother and son hugged to close the monologue segment as she gushed, “Break a leg tonight. The segment undoubtedly was crafted in part to temper critics of the billionaire as out of control. He indulged his penchant for fantasy in observing, “Our reality might be a video game and we’re all just computer simulations being played by a teenager on a another planet.” Beaming, she added, “You turned that video game about space into reality.” You were too young to open a bank account so I had to open one for you,” she said. “Do you remember when I was 12 I created my own video game?,” he asked. She played straight woman to her 49-year-old son, with their banter including a prompt to position him as a boy genius. “I could say something truly shocking - like I drive of Prius,” he said.Īnd although he did not appear in the special Mother’s Day cold open, he brought his mother Maye Musk onstage for a special spotlight moment during his monologue. He joked about “SNL” being live and the risk that posed for him. Musk has been scolded by regulators for his pronouncements about his publicly held businesses in unusual channels for a CEO. Simpson to murderer.” He noted that Simpson hosted “SNL” twice - and “killed it.” Musk joked that it was “like I go from podcast to podcast lighting up joints. He made a surprising comparison of his reputation to that of accused double murderer O.J. “People are reduced to the dumbest thing they ever did,” Musk said, referring to the September 2018 incident when he was seen smoking marijuana while appearing on the podcast hosted by Joe Rogan. Musk also joked about his son’s name, saying it’s “pronounced like a cat running across a keyboard,” and lamented the volume of chatter about him in media and social media circles.
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