Elon Musk spent $474 million in donations in a failed attempt to sway voters to vote republican. The embarrassment merited a now-deleted X post and a Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update parody skit, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jeremy Culhane (American Vandal, The Sperm Bank) played Musk, while Colin Jost (Pop Culture Jeopardy!, Fly Me to The Moon) played his usual news anchor role.
Jost highlighted the irony in Musk’s recent decisions that inevitably backfired in the week of the midterms. He asked Musk about the election results and how his attempts to sway them failed so badly.
Additionally, Jost questioned Musk’s decision to move SpaceX to Texas to evade California’s Democratic corporate policies. Policies that would inevitably have him paying more in corporate taxes.
In the same week, his Cybertruck was officially declared a failure. Throughout the interview, a comedic version of Musk attempted to shift the conversation elsewhere.
The parody presented Musk with a childlike personality. He avoided the questions about both the Cybertruck controversy and the now useless donations by circling back to a video of his Cybertruck doing a flip. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Musk compared the video to “Hot Wheels,” “a car flip and barrage of so-you-know-uhs the mogul is known for.”
The final segment of the parody featured a joke about Musk’s AI bot “Grok.” Musk requested Grok to make, according to The Hollywood Reporter, an “epic vulgar-roast” against him, which was Culhan’s term for a witty insult. In the skit, Grok responded with a series of jabs, stating, “You’re the worst thing South Africa has done,” and, about his estranged relationship with his kids, “If you have 100 more kids, maybe one of them will talk to you,” among other mocking words.
Rumors are circulating that Culhane’s Musk character will be returning in future Saturday Night Live episodes, although nothing has been confirmed.
Elon Musk is at the Update desk to comment on his tough week https://t.co/9LAVmxFuD1
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