Saturday Night Live cast member Jeremy Culhane unveiled his impression of Elon Musk during last night’s show, depicting the SpaceX and Tesla CEO as an awkward loser. Culhane’s Musk attempted to befriend the hosts of Weekend Update, fumbling through interactions and laughing off his setbacks while reminding the audience, My car did a flip!
The portrayal came amid Musk’s recent news, including spending half a billion dollars on midterm candidates who lost and announcing plans to halt Cybertruck production.
Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost confronted Culhane’s Musk about his relocation to Texas, asking: You moved to Texas because California was run by Democrats. You moved all your companies to Texas because you didn’t want to pay taxes. You even built your own town in Texas. And now Texas is run by Democrats. Now you’re going to have to pay taxes. So how does that make you feel?
Culhane nodded along with each step of the question before answering, Bad?
In a segment meant to show Musk’s willingness to be roasted, Culhane asked his chatbot Grok to deliver an epic vulgar roast of me, Elon Musk.
Grok responded by describing Musk as the worst thing South Africa has ever done
and suggested, Maybe if you have 100 more kids, one of them will talk to you.
This roast followed a spoof of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything,
featuring Jane Wickline’s impression of the Theranos founder.
The episode continued SNL’s trend of targeting tech executives this season. Previous skits included Jane Wickline’s portrayal of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as a stuttering prophet of AI doom and James Austin Johnson’s caricature of data center backer Kevin O’Leary, who quipped about replacing God’s untouched splendor with a very loud computer that steals your job.
