Billionaire Elon a ‘Musk see’ on ‘mediocre’ episode of ‘SNL’

Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live this week like a man with nothing to lose.

Thats probably because his net worth is $166 billion. Whats a 90-minute-long sketch show to a man with an income greater thansome countries defense budgets?

But 49-year-old Musk had been under pressure for weeks. He was the most controversial guest host of SNL since then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2015.

The Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur appeared amid a flurry of anger because of his enormous wealth and his early pandemic skepticism. Cast members Andrew Dismukes, Bowen Yang and Aidy Bryant wrote critical tweets leading up to Musks gig, and there were reports that they might even opt out of the episode entirely in protest.

The boycott never happened. Yang appeared alongside Musk in multiple segments, the deafening fracas fizzled out and we got yet another mediocre episode of SNL

Shockingly, though, Musk was the best part.

The billionaire took the stage of Studio 8H dressed like a James Bond villain, and delivered a scorcher of a stand-up set that was funnier than the entire ensuing hour.

Im actually making history tonight as the first host with Aspergers to host SNL, he announced to applause. Or at least the first to admit it.

Brilliant. Like his first joke, the others werent safe.

A lot of times people are reduced to the dumbest thing they ever did, he said, acknowledging that he once smoked pot on Joe Rogans podcast.

Its like reducing OJ Simpson to murder. One time! Fun fact: OJ also hosted this show in 79. And again in 96. He killed.

Then came ugh the sketches.

They werent any good, but what was remarkable is that Musk who, as far as I know, never so much as appeared in a high school production of Guys and Dolls held his own with the more experienced cast.

The first was Generation Z Hospital, a stupid send-up of twentysomethings and hospital soap operas. He played a doctor that informed a group their pal had died. As a memorial, they passed around an urn with a Supreme logo on it and spoke in annoying youth-isms.

The next one was The Uli Show, a kind of Waynes World airing on Icelandic Public TV with Chloe Fineman and Mikey Day. Once again, Musk was the funniest character as a TV producer named Ragnarok who was in love with Uli.

Later on, he livened up Weekend Update as a financial expert attempting to explain cryptocurrencies to Michael Che.

What is Dogecoin? Che repeatedly asked him.

Well, it was created in 2013, Musk responded.

Prompted again and again, he finally concluded, Its an unstoppable financial vehicle thats going to take over the world.

Oh, so its a hustle?, replied Che.

Yeah, its a hustle.

Toward the end, Musk got silly. He played Wario Super Marios evil counterpart and cracked Nintendo cocaine jokes.

SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels was smart to bring on Musk now that the presidential election is long over and viewers arent staying home on Saturday nights as much while restrictions and curfews are lifted. The businessman, like him or not, reeled in viewers that hadnt tuned into the show in years.

Even if it was an average episode of Saturday Night Live, the host was a Musk see.

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Billionaire Elon a 'Musk see' on 'mediocre' episode of 'SNL'