Elon Musk's Saturday Night Live stream on YouTube globally
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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk marked his debut on the "Saturday Night Live" with a series of jokes and controversy.
Playing on Elon Musk's reputation as an innovator, the broadcaster live-streamed the Saturday Night Live episode globally on YouTube, the first time the show has ever been viewable simultaneously around the world.
The 49-year-old CEO, who is one of the world's richest men opened his monologue by mocking his monotonal speaking style, saying no one can tell when he's joking.
"It's great to be hosting 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really mean it," he said standing on the stage in a black suit. "Sometimes after I say something, I have to say that I mean it." "It's great to be hosting 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really mean it," said Musk standing on the stage in a black suit with a black T-shirt. "Sometimes after I say something, I have to say that I mean it."
Musk said he was the first person with Asperger's to host SNL — something he hasn't said publicly before. It did not appear he was joking, but it was a bit difficult to be sure how sincere Musk was being, given his history as both an internet troll and someone who doesn't always know how to deliver a joke.
He also joked that people sometimes don't know what to expect from him. "I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars on a rocket ship," he said. "Did you think I was going to be a chill, normal dude?" For this, Musk got his biggest laugh of the night, and an applause break from the studio audience.
He added, in explanation, that he is the first person with Asperger's syndrome to host the show. "Or at least the first person to admit it," he said. It may have been the first time Musk has publicly said he has the mild form of autism.
He also said the name of his youngest child, spelled X Æ A-12 is "pronounced 'cat running across keyboard.'"
He cited one example wherein he smoked weed on Joe Rogan's podcast and griped that people now think he does that all the time. "It's like reducing O.J. Simpson to 'murderer,'" he said. "It was one time!"
