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Elon Musk Is Portrayed on ‘SNL’: “The Worst Thing South Africa Has Ever Done”

The Hollywood Reporter·Steven Zeitchik·3 days ago
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Elon Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars to get humiliated at the polls, but at least he came away with an SNL parody.

Jeremy Culhane played the mogul in an appearance with Weekend Update’s Colin Jost as he tried to make sense of his bruising electoral losses. The actor offered a persuasive impression of the mogul’s halting speeches and nonsensical attempts to change the subject with talk of a future that won’t happen. “Imagine, “Culhane’s Musk ended a sentence several times non-sequiturishly.

A few days after his major campaign investments came up fruitless (and in a week when his Cybertruck was officially deemed a failure , compounding the injury), comic Musk sought to change the subject

“You’re in the news because you wasted half a billion dollars on the midterms… almost all the candidates you backed lost,” Jost said.

“I’m in the news because my car did a flip… it was like a freaking Hot Wheel,” Musk replied with a Buttheadian enthusiasm.

Jost pointed out the irony that “you moved to Texas…

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