With the world serving up more drama than a soap opera lately, Saturday Night Live has a never-ending buffet of material to sink its teeth into.
On April 5, the show brutally took aim at Elon Musk.
Sporting a cheesehead hat
Another week, another SNL sketch poking fun at Elon Musk — and, of course, another Twitter meltdown from the billionaire himself. This time, it was Mike Myers who took aim at Musk, impersonating him in a sketch about a new Tesla model with a rather… unique feature — a car that vandalizes itself.
Myers made the surprise appearance toward the end of the “Trump Tariff Cold Open” segment, where President Donald Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) tried to calm the nation after the stock market took a dive following his latest tariff announcement.
After Trump declared, ”South Africa puts a 60% tariff on everything we send them, and they’ve never even sent us one good thing,” Mike Myers’ version of Elon Musk strolled into the scene — sporting a cheesehead hat, a nod to the real-life moment he wore one while unsuccessfully trying to help a Trump-backed candidate win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.
”That was from when I tried to buy the election in Wisconsin,” Myers’ Musk quipped. ”I’m an idiot. I should have just bought Wisconsin!”
In light of recent protests at Tesla dealerships and reports of people deliberately wrecking the cars, Myers’ Musk then introduced “the new Tesla Model-V — the first electric car in history to be fully self-vandalizing. With features like self-smashing headlights, self-slashing tires, and AI-powered graffiti.”
It was a typical SNL jab, filled with over-the-top humor, but Elon wasn’t laughing.
Musk, who had previously hosted SNL in 2021 before souring on the show less than a year later, didn’t take kindly to Myers’ portrayal. He hit back on X (formerly Twitter), posting, “SNL hasn’t been funny in a long time. They are their own parody.”
Classic Elon — never shy about sharing his feelings with millions of followers.
The show’s portrayal of Musk didn’t sit well with everyone. One viewer slammed the sketch as “really poor,” and took aim at the show’s politics, saying: “Making fun of high functioning Asperger’s is so typical of the mentally ill left,” referencing the diagnosis Musk publicly shared during his SNL hosting stint four years ago.
Autism Capital, a citizen journalism account on X known for regularly engaging with Elon Musk, didn’t hold back its opinion on the sketch either.
“This is such exceedingly bad taste. Wow. Not ever funny, just mean. Born from hate, not from humor,” the account posted.
While Elon’s fans have joined him in criticizing the skit, calling it ”mean” and ”fuelled by hatred,” others are less sympathetic. Some Twitter users have had a good laugh at Musk’s expense, posting cheeky comments like, “Boo hoo crybaby” and even a crying cat meme, which probably didn’t help Musk’s mood.
One user even reminded Musk, “Didn’t you host a few years ago? You just don’t like that they made fun of you.”
