Elon Musk as Wario on SNL. Photo: Saturday Night Live/YouTube Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live on May 8 seemed designed to create conversation. There had been buckets of it beforehand, after all, covering everything from Musk’s unusual place in the history of SNL hosts, to his pet cryptocurrency project, to the various Musk controversies over the past several years.
The sketch was never able to turn into anything beyond the first idea, playing into the baseline superficial silliness of treating a Super Mario premise like a serious courtroom drama. As the judge, Cecily Strong bangs a gavel on a Nintendo question block. Kate McKinnon as Waluigi strokes a similarly laughable mustache.
Musk was a willing host, more willing than it seemed possible he might be. He appeared in nearly every sketch, playing everything from a Gen-Z doctor to an awkward partygoer to a lovestruck Scandinavian TV producer, and throughout the show, the sketches were aimed at humanizing him. His “Weekend Update” professorial figure tries to explain the cryptocurrency dogecoin over and over before finally laughing and agreeing that it’s basically a hustle.
kvanaren I wonder if he revealed that he was on the spectrum in part to buffer these types of criticisms. I saw a few sketches before the mono & just thought he was awkward because he's not an actor. I've never seen him speak so I didn't have a baseline.
vulture kvanaren Translation: peeps still not smart enough to step to Musk.
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kvanaren Well they did advertise all his products multiple times and let him manipulate cryptocurrency even after he admitted online he was going to do it so they have that going for them.
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vulture kvanaren In other words, it was a typical SNL episode.
kvanaren Wario! 🔥
kvanaren Elon's ego was satisfied.
kvanaren This was one of the best sketches.
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