{"id":488590,"date":"2021-05-09T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=488590"},"modified":"2021-05-09T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:20:49","slug":"a-black-hole-of-fun-angry-leftists-slam-elon-musks-snl-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-black-hole-of-fun-angry-leftists-slam-elon-musks-snl-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Black Hole Of Fun\u2019: Angry Leftists Slam Elon Musk\u2019s SNL Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-black-hole-of-fun-angry-leftists-slam-elon-musks-snl-performance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=488590&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232778561-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>This weekend, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, hosted \u201c<\/span><span>Saturday Night Live.\u201d <\/span><span>When it was announced in April <\/span><span>that the billionaire would host the famous comedy series, several cast members and writers responded negatively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe news of Musk hosting apparently triggered the cast; Bowen Yang blurted, \u2018What the f *** does this even mean,\u2019 in an Instagram Story post. Aidy Bryant reacted by reposting a tweet by Sen. Bernie Sanders that called it a \u2018moral obscenity\u2019 that \u2018the 50 wealthiest people in America today own more wealth than the bottom half of our people,\u2019\u201d reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-snl-members-freak-out-about-appearing-with-elon-musk-show-tells-them-they-can-skip-it\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span>, adding that \u201cSNL writer Andrew Dismukes posted on Instagram: \u2018Only CEO I want to do a sketch with is Cher-E Oteri.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The criticism continued following his performance, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/elon-musks-deceptive-and-deeply-awkward-snl-monologue\"><span>The Daily Beast<\/span><\/a><span> publishing a piece titled, \u201cElon Musk\u2019s Deceptive and Deeply Awkward SNL Monologue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The piece slammed Musk as a \u201cunion-busting billionaire who\u2019s repeatedly spread COVID and vaccine misinformation,\u201d and noted that some \u201cmocked Musk for sharing some incredibly lame \u2018skit ideas for SNL.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite Musk\u2019s strong performance compared to the professional comedians who make up the \u201cSNL\u201d cast, The Daily Beast couldn\u2019t bring themselves to praise the billionaire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>He stumbled nervously \u2014 albeit somewhat endearingly \u2014 through the rest of his scripted speech, sharing his \u2018vision for the future\u2019 (\u2018renewable energy\u2019 and how \u2018humanity must be a multiplanetary, space-bearing civilization\u2019), and poking fun at his habit of making 4\/20 and 69 jokes on Twitter,\u201d The Daily Beast wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Given that the entire show is scripted \u2014 with cast members obviously reading their lines during skits \u2014 the inclusion of \u201cscripted\u201d seems like a redundant insult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/elon-musk-snl-highest-rated-lowest-rated-season-46-saturday-night-live-episode\/\">The Wrap<\/a> also condemned Musk\u2019s performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>There were any number of reasons to be angry about \u2018SNL\u2019 tapping Elon Musk to host, including plenty of solid ethical and moral ones. Like <\/span><span>the time he mocked people\u2019s gender pronouns<\/span><span>. Or that time <\/span><span>he publicly threatened labor organizers at Tesla<\/span><span>. Or any of the other many reasons,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut on top of those things, there was another big reason that you might think would be important to the powers that be at \u2018SNL,\u2019\u201d their review continued. \u201cElon Musk isn\u2019t funny or entertaining in the least.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later, The Wrap described Musk as \u201c<\/span><span>a black hole of fun, without a shred of charisma, and he delivered a performance that\u2019s on the level of what you\u2019d expect to see in a middle school play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis episode, though, felt like a bad episode with a <\/span><i><span>bad<\/span><\/i><span> host. Aside from that amusing digital short, there wasn\u2019t a lot of good material here. A good host could have salvaged it,\u201d The Wrap added. \u201cElon Musk rushed through every single line so that it was hard to even understand what he was saying half the time, slipping from one accent to another seemingly without realizing he was doing it, and generally just being dramatically out of his league among the \u2018SNL\u2019 cast members.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given that Elon Musk\u2019s monologue has almost 2 million views on YouTube just hours after the show aired, the show\u2019s latest audience may disagree.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk Monologue - SNL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fCF8I_X1qKI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, hosted \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d When it was announced in April that the billionaire would host the famous comedy series, several cast members &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277612,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232778561-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018A Black Hole Of Fun\u2019: Angry Leftists Slam Elon Musk\u2019s SNL Performance","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232778561-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018A Black Hole Of Fun\u2019: Angry Leftists Slam Elon Musk\u2019s SNL Performance","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}