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| Elon Musk On SNL |
| 2021-05-09 |
| The summary - Elon was the only bright spot of the entire night (shocking, I know...) [NY Post] - Elon Musk hosted "Saturday Night Live" this week like a man with nothing to lose. That’s probably because his net worth is $166 billion. What’s a 90-minute-long sketch show to a man with an income greater than some countries’ defense budgets? But 49-year-old Musk had been under pressure for weeks. He was the most controversial guest host of "SNL" since then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2015. The Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur appeared amid a flurry of anger because of his enormous wealth and his early pandemic skepticism. Cast members Andrew Dismukes, Bowen Yang and Aidy Bryant wrote critical tweets leading up to Musk’s gig, and there were reports that they might even opt out of the episode entirely in protest. The boycott never happened. Yang appeared alongside Musk in multiple segments, the deafening fracas fizzled out and we got yet another mediocre episode of "SNL". |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #6 Somewhat dated info, but I have been told he sometimes frequents the Blue Crane. Cannot say for certain what table number. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-05-09 11:59 |
| #5 /\ You can take the boy out of the country.... |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-05-09 11:51 |
#4  A snippet of trivia about Errol Musk, Elon's father:“I refuse to live [in the U.S.]. I tried it, and came back home,” even though he says his home country has more “violent crime.” Errol shot and killed three home invaders in Pretoria years ago. Pleading 'self defense' he was acquitted of manslaughter charges. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-05-09 11:47 |
| #3 The show was as mediocre as ever. But Musk's monologue was a brilliant undercutting of a lot of attacks on him by regulators aligned with the other oligarchs who want to catch up in space etc. and by the wokerati. |
| Posted by: Spusosh Croluck9804 2021-05-09 10:37 |
| #2 Wow - SNL is still on? That hasn't been funny for Decades. What I don't understand is why would anyone want to be on it. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-05-09 10:33 |
| #1 Money talks? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-09 09:43 |