His stint on Saturday Night Live (SNL) was expected and the announcement of his participation in the cult humorous show had notably raised a semblance of controversy.
Elon Musk, the whimsical boss of Tesla and SpaceX, took the opportunity to brag about being the first person with Asperger’s syndrome to be invited to the SNL show. “Or at least the first to admit it,” he argued.
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“Look, I know I’m saying or posting weird things, but that’s the way my brain works,” Musk said.
“To all the people I have offended I say: I have reinvented the electric car and I am sending people to the planet Mars aboard a rocket.” “Do you really think I would be a relaxed and normal guy?”
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Elon Musk, who had played down the coronavirus, tried to redeem himself, dressed all in black, saying “the masks made sense.” He refrained from smoking a joint live, recalling that he was criticized for having done so in a podcast.
A big believer in cryptocurrencies, the controversial multi-billionaire did not fail to praise Dogecoin, a digital currency initially created as a joke, which he helped legitimize in his tweets.
During a sketch where we keep asking the question “but what is Dogecoin?”, Elon Musk ends up answering: “it is an unstoppable financial vehicle that will conquer the world”. And to add enthusiastically: “forward to the Moon!”.
SNL’s unusual guest performance, however, did not send the price of Dogecoin to the moon, which fell 5 cents on the show to close around 55 cents.
“Not evil but only misunderstood”
Disguised as Wario, the enemy of the hero of the Super Mario video game, Elon Musk assured “not to be evil but only misunderstood”.
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The founder of SpaceX also showed a dark humor by sending an astronaut on Mars to whom he assures that he “will not survive this mission” and whose head explodes in the helmet live on the screens of Times Square .
And in a Chinese rocket spike whose uncontrolled return to earth on Saturday night released debris in the Indian Ocean, the hosts of the show wondered: “but why is Elon Musk the guest of the show Now we know, he needed an alibi! “
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