Elon Musk’s $43 billion offer to buy Twitter even made it to “Saturday Night Live.”
The NBC show poked fun at the Tesla CEO during the show’s “Weekend Update” segment.
Hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che traded lines about the proposed deal.
“Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for over $40 billion so he can loosen its free speech rules,” Che said, before adding, “That’s how badly white guys want to use the ‘n-word.’”
“OK, I’m Elon Musk,” Day’s Musk began. “And I’m here to officially buy Easter. I’m offering 43 billion Peeps. That was a joke. Do you get it? That’s why afterwards I said ‘That was a joke,’ so you know it was a joke.”
“Honestly, I don’t understand why Elon even wants to own Twitter,” Jost said. “It used to be something that seemed important and even fun and now you look at it and it’s confusing and depressing. It’s the Giuliani of apps.”
“And come on, Elon built electric cars, he’s going to Mars, why is he even involving himself with Twitter?” Jost added. “It would be like if the Prince of England gave it all up just to marry an actor from Suits.” Referring to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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.”
Musk suggested changes to the Twitter business model, was offered a position on the social media company’s board, which he turned down, and he conducted a poll asking people on Twitter about whether they would be in favor of an edit button.
This is an excerpt from Fox News.
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