Elon Musk's $43 billion offer to buy Twitter even made it to ‘Saturday Night Live.
Hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che traded lines about the proposed deal.
Che opened by saying Musk was making the offer so he could loosen its free speech rules. "That's how badly White guys want to use the N-word," said Che.Jost followed by wondering why Musk wanted to buy Twitter. "It used to be something that seemed important and even fun and now you look at it as confusing and depressing, it's the Giuliani of apps.
In the show's opening sketch, cast member Mikey Day as Musk said he was making a bid to buy Easter, "offering 43 billion PEEPS."
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