- "Saturday Night Live" has debuted a new Elon Musk impersonator: Mike Myers.
- This week's cold open satirized Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy's White House meeting.
- The DOGE advocate was previously played by Myers' former "SNL" castmate Dana Carvey.
"Saturday Night Live" debuted a new Elon Musk impersonation on this weekend's show.
The first episode of the NBC show since its 50th-anniversary special opened with a sketch satirizing Donald Trump's Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The tense meeting ended with Zelenskyy abruptly leaving the White House without signing a US-Ukraine mineral deal as expected.
In the "SNL" version, Trump was played as usual by James Austin Johnson, with Bowen Yang as Vice President JD Vance, and Mikey Day as Zelenskyy.
The sketch began by emphasizing Vance's displeasure that Zelenskyy had not said thank you during the meeting. Soon after, the DOGE advisor Musk dropped by, played by the "SNL" alum Mike Myers.
He was wearing a black blazer and the "TECH SUPPORT" T-shirt that the real Musk wore in the White House at a meeting of Trump's cabinet.
Wielding a chainsaw — as Musk did last month onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference — Myers' Musk asked: "Donald, what are you doing in my office?"
"You know I'm the president now, right?" Myers added, then saying, "I'm kidding, I'm kidding — maybe not."
"Awesome, awesome, awesome," he continued.
"You've got to make a joke," he added, before throwing his hands in the air and shouting, "Legalize comedy!"
"Come on!" he repeated, doing awkward star jumps as he yelled.
As Myers' Musk settled, Johnson's Trump remarked: "I'm so comfortable with all of that."
He then said: "I'm really enjoying everything you're doing with DOGE, Elon."
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Johnson's Trump then talked about "mass firings" in government, as part of the cost-cutting drive led by the White House DOGE office.
"We love mass firings because you don't have to know what any of their names are or what exactly they do," Johnson said.
"We're not going to get it perfect, you know. But we are firing the nonessential employees like air traffic controllers," Myers' Musk added.
"Yes," Johnson agreed. "And sure, some of the planes are going to land upside down. But then the luggage falls right into your lap, and you're ready to go."
Musk was played in a series of sketches last year by Myers' former "SNL" castmate and "Wayne's World" costar Dana Carvey.
While Musk has not yet responded to Myers' portrayal of him, he did criticize Carvey's take on him at the time. In November on X, he wrote, "Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey."