Review: Elon Musk hosting 'SNL' was a gimmicky ratings grab — but not a disaster
“That Damn Michael Che” falls into several of the same comic traps as “SNL” has under the leadership of Che and “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost.
The episode opened with a sweet segment in which cast members appeared with their mother, for Mother’s Day, as if to say, besides that moms are cool, “not everyone on the show needs to be a pro.” Musk’s own mother made an appearance in his opening monologue, which began with a sort of disclaimer: “I don’t always have a lot of intonational variation in how I speak. Which I’m told makes for great comedy.
And though Aidy Bryant, who had reposted a Bernie Sanders tweet about billionaires and income inequality that was widely taken to refer to the booking, was not present, the cast members who were did not seem to begrudge Musk’s presence, and kept the energy up around him. All in all, as “SNL” goes, it was a decent showing.
The jokes hit a goodly number of Muskean topics and old tweets — Mars, cars, “The Matrix,” smoking dope on Joe Rogan’s show, COVID-19 and cryptocurrency — without digging deep on any of them. There is always the question in a show at least vestigially devoted to topical satire on how hard to poke the guest, and how much to flatter him.
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