Saturday Night Live
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0:00Elon MuskLadies and gentlemen, Elon Musk.
0:23Elon MuskThank you, thank you. Thank you very much. It's an honor to be hosting Saturday Night Live. I mean that. Sometimes after I say something, I have to say I mean that so people really know that I mean it.
0:39Elon MuskThat's because I don't always have a lot of intonation or variation in how I speak, which I'm told makes for great comedy. I'm actually making History night as the first person with Asperger's to host snl,
1:02Elon MuskOr at least the first to admit it. So I won't make a lot of eye contact with the cast tonight, but don't worry, I'm pretty good at running human in emulation mode.
1:14Elon MuskI'd first like to share with you my vision for the future. I believe in a renewable energy future. I believe that humanity must become a multi planetary space faring civilization.
1:25Elon MuskThose seem like exciting goals, don't they?
1:33Elon MuskNow, I think if I just posted that on Twitter, I'd be fine. But I also write things like 69 days after 4:20 again. Ha ha. I don't know. I thought it was funny.
1:49Elon MuskThat's why I wrote haha at the end. Look, I know I sometimes say or post strange things, but that's just how my brain works. To anyone I've offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship.
2:10Elon MuskDid you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?
2:27Elon MuskNow a lot of times people are reduced to the dumbest thing they ever did. Like one time I smoked weed on Joe Rogan's podcast. And now all the time I hear Elon Musk.
2:37Elon MuskAll he ever does is smoke weed on podcasts. Like I go from podcast to podcast lighting up joints. It happened once. It's like reducing O.J. simpson to murderer. That was one time.
2:55Elon MuskFun fact. OJ also hosted this show in 79 and again in 96. Killed both times.
3:10Elon MuskOne reason I've always loved SNL is because it's genuinely live. A lot of people don't realize that we're actually live right now. Which means I could say something truly shocking like I drive a Prius.
3:24Elon MuskSLL is also a great way to learn something new about the host. For example, this is my son's name. It's pronounced cat running across keyboard.
3:38Elon MuskAnother thing people want to know is, what was that like as a kid? The answer is pretty much the same as now, but smaller. But we can also ask my mother who's here tonight.
3:57Elon MuskHer name is May. Like the month, but with an e at the end.
4:00Maye MuskThanks for spelling my name, Elon.
4:04Elon MuskMom, do you remember when I was 12 and I created my own video game called Blastar about a spaceship that battles aliens?
4:11Maye MuskI do. I remember. They paid you $500, but you were too young to open a bank account, so I had to open one for you.
4:22Elon MuskThat's right. Whatever happened to that bank account?
4:24Maye MuskThat's not important. You turned that video game about space into reality.
4:33Elon MuskUnless you consider that our reality might be a video game and we're all just computer simulations being played by a teenager in another plan.
4:43Maye MuskThat's great, Elon. Well, break a leg tonight. I love you very much.
4:51Elon MuskI love you, too, Mom.
4:59Maye MuskAnd I'm excited for my Mother's Day gift. I just hope it's not dogecoin.
5:04Elon MuskIt is. Sure is. We've got a. Okay, we've got a great show for you tonight. Miley Cyrus is here,
5:18Elon MuskSo stick around. We'll be right back.