These days, there is more drama in the world than a soap opera, so Saturday Night Live has an endless supply of content to work with.
The show viciously attacked Elon Musk on April 5.
With a cheesehead cap on
One more week, another SNL skit making fun of Elon Musk, and naturally, another outburst from the billionaire on Twitter. This time, Mike Myers targeted Musk by posing as him in a spoof about a new Tesla model that has a somewhat… unusual feature: a vehicle that damages itself.
Myers’ unexpected entrance came near the end of the “Trump Tariff Cold Open” section, in which James Austin Johnson’s character, President Donald Trump, attempted to reassure the country after the stock market plummeted in response to his most recent tariff announcement.
Mike Myers’ portrayal of Elon Musk entered the scene after Trump said, “South Africa puts a 60% tariff on everything we send them, and they’ve never even sent us one good thing.” He was wearing a cheesehead hat, a reference to the time he once tried in vain to help a candidate supported by Trump win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.
Myers’ Musk said, “That was from when I tried to buy the election in Wisconsin.” “I’m a fool. I ought to have simply purchased Wisconsin!
Myers’ Musk then unveiled “the new Tesla Model-V — the first electric car in history to be fully self-vandalizing,” in response to previous demonstrations at Tesla dealerships and accusations of people purposefully damaging the vehicles. with capabilities like AI-powered graffiti, self-slashing tires, and self-smashing spotlights.
Elon wasn’t laughing, even though the joke was typical of Saturday Night Live and was full of outrageous humor.
Musk didn’t like Myers’ portrayal. Musk had hosted Saturday Night Live in 2021 before losing interest in the program less than a year later. “SNL hasn’t been funny in a long time,” he retorted on X (previously Twitter). They are parodies of themselves.
Elon in his prime, never afraid to express his emotions to his millions of fans.
Not everyone was pleased with how Musk was portrayed in the show. In reference to the diagnosis Musk made public during his time hosting Saturday Night Live four years ago, one viewer called the comedy “really poor” and attacked the politics of the show, saying: “Making fun of high functioning Asperger’s is so typical of the mentally ill left.”
Autism Capital, an X citizen journalism account that frequently interacts with Elon Musk, also voiced its thoughts about the sketch.
“This is very terrible taste. Whoa. Mean, but never humorous. “Not funny, but hateful,” the account wrote.
Others are less sympathetic, despite Elon’s supporters joining him in denouncing the skit as “mean” and “fueled by hatred.” With snarky remarks like “Boo hoo crybaby” and even a crying cat meme, some Twitter users have had a good chuckle at Musk’s expense, which has likely not improved Musk’s mood.
Musk even received a reminder from one user: “Didn’t you host a couple years ago? You simply dislike that they ridiculed you.
Given Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, it appears that Myers will continue to criticize him.
Musk’s answer, however, suggests that whenever the next cartoon airs, we should expect more Twitter tirades. Apparently, a new edition of Saturday Night Live wouldn’t be complete without some Musk drama!