SpaceX’s Elon Musk hosting ‘Saturday Night time Live’ this weekend
Elon Musk is about to consider his hand at comedy.
The SpaceX manager is hosting “Saturday Night Are living” this weekend, on a exhibit that features Miley Cyrus as the musical guest.
Musk looks very thrilled about the gig. He just lately questioned his practically 53 million Twitter followers for sketch strategies and trotted out a several of his own.
“Irony Male — defeats villains working with the electrical power of irony,” Musk tweeted on Could 1. (Actor Robert Downey Jr. has reported he drew inspiration from Musk in shaping his portrayal of Tony Stark in the “Iron Male” films, and the billionaire entrepreneur has a cameo in “Iron Male 2.”) “Little one Shark & Shark Tank merge to kind Toddler Shark Tank,” Musk wrote in yet another tweet.
Individuals principles might not make it onto the exhibit. But we really should expect some room-connected sketches — something playing off Musk’s prolonged-held dream of Mars colonization, maybe, or SpaceX’s impending launch of 4 non-public citizens to orbit on the Inspiration4 mission.
The SNL look will come in the center of a pretty superior run for SpaceX. On April 23, the company launched its second contracted crewed mission to the International Place Station for NASA, and the astronauts who flew on SpaceX’s first operational flight to the orbiting lab came down to Earth on Could 2.
And just yesterday (May possibly 5), a prototype of SpaceX’s Starship Mars rocket aced a significant-altitude check flight for the initial time. The shiny silver car, identified as SN15 (“Serial No. 15”), flew 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) into the South Texas skies and came down for a gentle landing — something that its four immediate predecessors experienced unsuccessful to accomplish. (Just one of individuals preceding motor vehicles, SN10, landed in just one piece but exploded quite a few minutes later on.)
Musk has a longstanding interest in comedy. For illustration, he reportedly when required to invest in The Onion, a single of the longest-running and most commemorated satirical retailers on the net. He also helped bankroll a rival comedy site termed Thud that was led by Onion alums but ended up backing out of the undertaking.
Musk seems now to have soured on The Onion, which has place the billionaire in its satirical crosshairs several moments. Just after a latest Onion slideshow joked that the South Africa-born Musk experienced received his fortune by using apartheid, Musk tweeted, “Disgrace on you, Onion. This is why men and women are switching to @TheBabylonBee!”
“Saturday Night time Stay” hosted by Elon Musk will air on NBC on May possibly 8 at 11:30 p.m. EDT.
Mike Wall is the writer of “Out There” (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the lookup for alien lifetime. Stick to him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Adhere to us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Elon Musk is about to consider his hand at comedy.
The SpaceX manager is hosting “Saturday Night Are living” this weekend, on a exhibit that features Miley Cyrus as the musical guest.
Musk looks very thrilled about the gig. He just lately questioned his practically 53 million Twitter followers for sketch strategies and trotted out a several of his own.
“Irony Male — defeats villains working with the electrical power of irony,” Musk tweeted on Could 1. (Actor Robert Downey Jr. has reported he drew inspiration from Musk in shaping his portrayal of Tony Stark in the “Iron Male” films, and the billionaire entrepreneur has a cameo in “Iron Male 2.”) “Little one Shark & Shark Tank merge to kind Toddler Shark Tank,” Musk wrote in yet another tweet.
Individuals principles might not make it onto the exhibit. But we really should expect some room-connected sketches — something playing off Musk’s prolonged-held dream of Mars colonization, maybe, or SpaceX’s impending launch of 4 non-public citizens to orbit on the Inspiration4 mission.
The SNL look will come in the center of a pretty superior run for SpaceX. On April 23, the company launched its second contracted crewed mission to the International Place Station for NASA, and the astronauts who flew on SpaceX’s first operational flight to the orbiting lab came down to Earth on Could 2.
And just yesterday (May possibly 5), a prototype of SpaceX’s Starship Mars rocket aced a significant-altitude check flight for the initial time. The shiny silver car, identified as SN15 (“Serial No. 15”), flew 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) into the South Texas skies and came down for a gentle landing — something that its four immediate predecessors experienced unsuccessful to accomplish. (Just one of individuals preceding motor vehicles, SN10, landed in just one piece but exploded quite a few minutes later on.)
Musk has a longstanding interest in comedy. For illustration, he reportedly when required to invest in The Onion, a single of the longest-running and most commemorated satirical retailers on the net. He also helped bankroll a rival comedy site termed Thud that was led by Onion alums but ended up backing out of the undertaking.
Musk seems now to have soured on The Onion, which has place the billionaire in its satirical crosshairs several moments. Just after a latest Onion slideshow joked that the South Africa-born Musk experienced received his fortune by using apartheid, Musk tweeted, “Disgrace on you, Onion. This is why men and women are switching to @TheBabylonBee!”
“Saturday Night time Stay” hosted by Elon Musk will air on NBC on May possibly 8 at 11:30 p.m. EDT.
Mike Wall is the writer of “Out There” (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the lookup for alien lifetime. Stick to him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Adhere to us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.