Elon Musk on SNL: Reactions

Elon Musk can now say he has hosted SNL. The question on most Saturday Night Live viewers’ minds: Does the most ballyhooed industrialist of our time, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, with a net worth in the hundreds of billions, have the kinds of comic chops to not completely embarrass himself on history’s first globally-livestreamed episode of SNL?
A little bit of context, before we get into things:
- On Saturday, in the lead-up to the broadcast, Musk tweeted about Doge being with him on SNL (),
- Which came just a day after he over investing in Dogecoin.
- This was the same week Musk got majorly ,
- and Tesla had to publicly eat crow over Musk’s .
- And it all, of course, came on the heels of with Musk’s hosting gig relatively well-known.
So! To say there was a lot to anticipate about Musk’s performance would be to… mildly understate the case. And the reviews came swift and fast. Here’s what the world had to say on Elon’s SNL debut:
On the monologue, in which Elon guaranteed headlines by identifying as a person with Asperger Syndrome:
Elon Musk Reveals On 'SNL' He Has Asperger's
— TMZ (@TMZ)
On Dogecoin:
The world when Elon and his mom mentioned on SNL
— Jarod Narag (@TheJrodBlog)
On the “Gen Z Hospital” skit:
I am on team beard Elon
— TJ Cooney
(@TJ_Cooney)
When Elon Invited his mom onstage:
He was awful:
SNL drew a lot of people with Elon as host only to drop the two worst opening sketches of all time.
— Ryan Mac
(@RMac18)
He was great:
Elon musk just basically said this about his tweets
— Stock Market News (@StockMKTNewz)
He was weird:
elon speaks and acts like a deepfake
— LAZAR (@Lazarbeam)
I definitely wasn't ready for Wario Elon
— Thomas Aman (@itsthomasaman)
He was awkward:
OMG This is Elon!
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— BogusThought (@billhuang688)
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