Elon Musk is in a temper over Dana Carvey’s “Saturday Night Live” impression of him.
Throughout the sketch present’s first post-election episode, “SNL” forged members mocked their anti-Donald Trump stance by cheekily pretending they supported the president-elect all alongside following Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Carvey, who has beforehand spoofed President Joe Biden on the present, appeared throughout its chilly opening as Musk, who endorsed Trump within the 2024 election.
“Check it out, dark MAGA. Yeah! But seriously, I run the country now,” Carvey mentioned, impersonating the tech tycoon and carrying a black MAGA hat. “America’s going to be like one of my rockets that’s super cool and super fun. But there’s a slight chance it could blow up, and everybody dies.”
Carvey’s joke poked enjoyable at Musk’s look throughout Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally late final month, the place he referred to himself as “dark, gothic MAGA.”
On Sunday, Musk criticized Carvey and “SNL” on his social media platform, X, previously known as Twitter.
“They are so mad that @realDonaldTrump won,” he wrote.
In a separate publish, Musk additionally trashed Carvey’s impression of him, writing, “Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.”
Musk, who hosted “SNL” in 2021, didn’t finish his complaints there in regards to the phase and went on to name the long-running present “out of touch.”
“SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality,” he wrote in one other publish. “Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further.”
Musk was referring to Harris’ look on “SNL” final week, which Brendan Carr, a Republican on the Federal Communications Fee, claimed was “a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.” The rule requires that broadcasters provide comparable time to opposing candidates.
Based on The Hollywood Reporter, an FCC consultant mentioned that Carr’s declare didn’t signify the company’s official views, and so they have “not made any determination regarding political programming rules, nor have we received a complaint from any interested parties.”
Whereas Musk wasn’t blown away by Carvey’s appearing chops, different customers on X appreciated the comic’s impersonation of the tech billionaire.
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