- “Saturday Night Live” has debuted a new Elon Musk impersonator: Mike Myers.
- During this week’s cold open, the show satirized Trump and Zelenskyy’s White House meeting.
- The DOGE director was previously played by Myers’ former “SNL” and “Wayne’s World” castmate Dana Carvey.
“Saturday Night Live” debuted a new Elon Musk impersonation on this weekend’s show.
The first episode of the NBC show since its 50th-anniversary special opened with a sketch satirizing Donald Trump’s Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday.
The tense meeting over a potential mineral deal ended with Zelenskyy abruptly leaving the White House without a potential mineral deal.
In SNL’s version, Trump was played as usual by James Austin Johnson, with Bowen Yang as Vice President JD Vance, and Mikey Day as Zelenskyy.
The sketch began by comically recreating Vance’s displeasure that Zelenskyy had not said thank you during the meeting before the DOGE director, played by “SNL” alum Mike Myers, dropped by.
He was wearing a black blazer and the same “TECH SUPPORT” t-shirt the real Musk wore in the White House at a meeting of Trump’s cabinet.
Wielding a chainsaw — as Musk did last month onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference — Myer’s Musk asked: “Donald, what are you doing in my office?”
“You know I’m the president now, right?” Myers added, then saying, “I’m kidding, I’m kidding… Maybe not.”
“Awesome, awesome, awesome,” he continued.
“You’ve got to make a joke, he added, before throwing his hands in the air and shouting, “Legalize comedy!”
“Come on!” he repeated, doing awkward star jumps as he yelled.
As Myer’s Musk settled, Johnson’s Trump remarked: “I’m so comfortable with all of that.”
He then said: “I’m really enjoying everything you’re doing with DOGE, Eli.”
Johnson’s Trump then talked about “mass firings” in government, as part of the cost-cutting drive led by Musk’s DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency.
“We love mass firings because you don’t have to know what any of their names are or what exactly they do,” Johnson said.
“We’re not going to get it perfect, you know. But we are firing the non-essential employees like air traffic controllers,” Myers’ Musk added.
“Yes,” Johnson agreed. “And sure, some of the planes are going to land upside down. But then the luggage falls right into your lap, and you’re ready to go.”
Musk was played in a series of sketches last year by Myers’ former “SNL” castmate — and “Wayne’s World” costar — Dana Carvey.
While Musk has not yet responded to Myer’s portrayal of him, he did criticize Carvey’s take on him at the time. In November on X, he wrote, “Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.”
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