{"id":963414,"date":"2026-11-08T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/963414\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:34:10","slug":"snl-makes-grok-roast-elon-musk-on-weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/963414\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217; Makes Grok Roast Elon Musk On &#8216;Weekend Update&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> has returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>, through <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeremy-culhane\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeremy-culhane\" data-tag=\"jeremy-culhane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Culhane<\/a>\u2018s hilarious impression, to give a postmortem of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/midterm-elections\/\" id=\"auto-tag_midterm-elections\" data-tag=\"midterm-elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/weekend-update\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weekend-update\" data-tag=\"weekend-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend Update<\/a>\u201d co-anchor Colin Jost noted, Musk has been in the news after he wasted half a billion dollars on backing candidates who lost, but the trillionaire disagreed with that take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cNo, I\u2019m in the news because my car did a flip! My car did a flip, remember? It was like a frickin\u2019 Hot Wheel,\u201d Culhane\u2019s Musk told Jost. \u201cBut I was like, totally chill. I was like, \u2018Thug life!\u2019 Imagine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Jost reminded him, most of the candidates Musk backed lost their elections. \u201cNice! That was like an epic roast of me. Most vulgar. You know, that\u2019s what I call an epic vulgar roast. And it\u2019s time for a pounding,\u201d said Culhane before initiating an awkward fist bump with Jost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing \u201canother epic vulgar roast from Colin Jost, my poorest friend,\u201d Musk revealed Epic Vulgar Roast is actually \u201cAI Grok\u2019s most epic hardcore feature. It\u2019s so vulgar and hilariously funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMusk told Grok to do an \u201cepic vulgar roast\u201d of him as an example, to which the robotic voice generated, \u201cElon Musk, you\u2019re the worst thing South Africa has ever done. When you\u2019re on TV, it feels like an episode of Hate on the Spectrum. Maybe if you have 100 more kids, one of them will talk to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe sketch comes after Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/11\/election-2026-latest-1237212469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">attempted to brush off his election losses<\/a> with an attempt at a joke. \u201cData centers in space looking pretty appealing right now. Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn\u2019t work this time,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Druski\u2019s SNL hosting debut \u2014 marking the first content creator without a current movie or TV show to host the sketch comedy show \u2014 The Strokes served as musical guest for a fifth time on this weekend\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has returned to Saturday Night Live, through Jeremy Culhane\u2018s hilarious impression, to give a postmortem of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,250,75,244195,84119,28371,28372],"class_list":["post-963414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-jeremy-culhane","tag-midterm-elections","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-weekend-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}