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Who did Elon trigger tonight?


Show started 45m ago. Was Elon boring, smart, cancelled, or what?

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The fact that his presence pisses off liberals, is BEAUTIFUL!

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No worse than any non-actor host. And his lady, Grimes, made an appearance.

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The audience liked him. Sounds like he didn't try to be controversial or funny.

BTW, 13 idiots of Imdb voted it 1* before airing.

Elon Musk Talks Vision For The Future, Twitter Trolling & Making History As First Host With Aspergers In Opening Monologue
https://deadline.com/2021/05/snl-elon-musk-opening-monologue-1234752434/

Musk then went on to lay out his grand vision for the future. “I believe in a renewable energy future. I believe that humanity must become a multiplanetary, space-bearing civilization. Those seem like exciting goals, don’t they?” he said, to cheers from the audience. “Now, I think if I just posted that on Twitter, I’d be fine. But I also write things like, ’69 days after 4/20 again haha.'”

Of course, Musk was aware coming into tonight that he’d proven a controversial choice as host, from the moment his name was announced, given his peculiar comments and antics over the years. “I know I sometimes say or post strange things, but that’s just how my brain works,” he explained. “To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?”

In kicking off the show, Musk also touched on his son’s unusual name, X Æ A-Xii (“It’s pronounced ‘cat running across keyboard'”), what he was like as a kid, and the tendency people have to reduce others to “the dumbest thing” they ever did.

“Like, one time I smoked weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and now all the time I hear, ‘Elon Musk, all he ever does is smoke weed on podcasts,’ like I go from podcast to podcast, lighting up joints,” he joked. “It happened once. It’s like reducing O.J. Simpson to ‘murderer.’ That was one time.”

“Fun fact,” he added. “O.J. also hosted this show in ’79 and again in ’96. Killed both times.”

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I don't think the audience had the same reservations as the cast.

And none of the cast members went up to him at the end. Only Chloe Fineman acknowledged him. Everyone else gave him the cold shoulder.

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