Camilla Jessen
After a wild sketch, Musk calls SNL a parody of itself.
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Saturday Night Live didn’t pull any punches on April 5, and Elon Musk was once again in the firing line.
In a surprise appearance during the “Trump Tariff Cold Open,” SNL veteran Mike Myers showed up as a wildly exaggerated version of Musk — complete with a cheesehead hat and a new Tesla model that trashes itself.
The sketch riffed off current headlines, combining Trump’s latest tariff announcements with jabs at recent incidents involving protests at Tesla dealerships.
Myers, as Musk, introduced the fictional Tesla Model-V, a car designed to self-destruct with “self-smashing headlights, self-slashing tires, and AI-powered graffiti.”
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“I should have just bought Wisconsin!” Myers’ Musk joked, referencing a real-life 2023 moment when Musk campaigned — with a cheesehead hat — for a Trump-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate, who ultimately lost.
This was reported by Newsner.
Musk Reacts Online
The real Elon Musk didn’t find the sketch amusing. He took to X (formerly Twitter), writing:
“SNL hasn’t been funny in a long time. They are their own parody.”
It’s not the first time Musk has gone head-to-head with the long-running comedy show.
He hosted SNL in 2021, a performance that drew mixed reactions, and has since grown increasingly critical of the show’s direction.
The parody drew a mixed response online.
Some fans of Musk slammed the sketch for what they saw as cheap shots, including criticism that it was mocking Musk’s public disclosure of having Asperger’s syndrome.
One viewer called the segment “really poor,” while the X account Autism Capital posted:
“This is such exceedingly bad taste. Wow. Not ever funny, just mean. Born from hate, not from humor.”
But others didn’t share Musk’s outrage. Comments like “boo hoo crybaby” and memes — including crying cat GIFs — flooded replies to his post. One user even wrote, “Didn’t you host a few years ago? You just don’t like that they made fun of you.”
As political satire and pop culture continue to collide on SNL, it’s unlikely Musk has seen the last of himself being lampooned.
Whether Musk’s online retorts fuel further mockery or simply add to the show’s material, one thing’s for sure: SNL still knows how to stir the pot — and Elon Musk is never far from the boil.
Watch the SNL sketch here.
