No shaggy dog account: Elon Musk to host Saturday Evening Stay on Would maybe additionally honest 8
Elon Musk is going to host the TV indicate in two weeks.
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Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman at the abet of Tesla and SpaceX, will host Saturday Evening Stay on Would maybe additionally honest 8, the NBC sketch comedy indicate announced Saturday. Miley Cyrus steadily is the musical visitor. An announcement from SNL described Musk as “the CEO and Technoking of Tesla and the manager engineer of SpaceX, which launched the second operational flight of its Dragon spacecraft to the Worldwide Dwelling Region on April 23.”
Even though Musk is a first-time host, Miley Cyrus has been the indicate’s musical visitor 5 instances.
Musk is an contemporary alternative, to claim the least, but some nonactors have hosted in the previous. Athletes such as Nancy Kerrigan and Lance Armstrong have hosted the indicate, as have politicians such as Rudy Giuliani and Al Gore. Even then-presidential candidate Donald Trump hosted in 2015.
And Musk is positively no stranger to the spotlight (or to cracking a shaggy dog account). He is had cameos in Iron Man 2, The Simpsons and Rick and Morty — as Elon Tusk. And then there are the viral moments: taking a toke on Joe Rogan’s podcast, that can also-nearly-have-been-a-comedy-routine Cybertruck demo. And the tweets — including the one the assign Musk’s head used to be Photoshopped onto the Rock’s body. Musk also named his in actuality-a-thing tunnel-digging industry The Boring Company.
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Naturally, there used to be some social-media reaction to the SNL files.
“I ponder how grand Musk paid NBC and Lorene Michaels for the gig,” one Twitter user wrote, referring to SNL creator Lorne Michaels. “Bet it’s enough to finance SNL’s complete 2021-’22 season.”
“Elon Musk web hosting SNL is mammoth for guys silent making “that’s what she acknowledged’ jokes who deem they’d be gargantuan at web hosting SNL,” wrote comedian and creator Josh Gondelman.
I ponder how grand Musk paid NBC and Lorene Michaels for the gig.
Bet it’s enough to finance SNL’s complete 2021-’22 season.— Milan Paurich (@milanpaurich) April 24, 2021
Elon Musk web hosting SNL is mammoth for guys silent making “that’s what she acknowledged” jokes who deem they’d be gargantuan at web hosting SNL.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) April 24, 2021
Tesla inventory will either skyrocket or plummet that following Monday on memoir of this.
— Kevin Pearson (@KevinLeePearson) April 24, 2021
elon musk furiously hoarding viral tweets to put collectively for web hosting SNL
— amy b (@arb) April 24, 2021
Later on Saturday, Musk confirmed his appearance with a tweet, then added one more the assign he wrote, “Let’s uncover glorious how dwell Saturday Evening Stay in actuality is,” with a purple smiling devil-face emoji.
Let’s uncover glorious how dwell Saturday Evening Stay in actuality is 😈
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2021
CNET’s Edward Moyer contributed to this speak.