{"id":918180,"date":"2026-11-15T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/918180\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:02:12","slug":"bowen-yang-crashes-snl-cold-open-as-jensen-huang-with-john-mulaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/918180\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang Crashes ‘SNL’ Cold Open as Jensen Huang with John Mulaney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBowen Yang<\/a> made a surprise return to \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d in the cold open, playing the disgraced tech mogul Jensen Huang as host John Mulaney led a group of tech billionaires through a CIA class on how to recognize female spies. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe cold open featured Mulaney as a CIA agent who gathered ultra-rich tech moguls at the agency\u2019s headquarters for a crash course on how to recognize a classic espionage honeytrap, a nod to the Nvidia scandal that has rocked the business world. In the closing moments of the sketch, former \u201cSNL<\/a>\u201d trouper Yang walked in delivering a pitch-perfect spoof of Huang, who was forced under pressure to resign on Nov. 12 from the Silicon Valley giant that he built for more than 30 years amid a growing sex scandal.<\/p>\n

\n\tYang introduced himself \u201cJensen Hide-Your-Wife Huang.\u201d Yang as Huang lamented that \u201cwomen don\u2019t like guys like us. That\u2019s how we became guys like us,\u201d after Mulaney\u2019s CIA agent flashes him Venn diagram charts that show no overlap between beautiful women and tech billionaires. Yang also quipped that when Huang comes into the room, \u201cYou know what\u2019s about to go down \u2014 the S&P 500.\u201d And in a nod to Nvidia\u2019s heft in the stock market, he added: \u201cThat\u2019s right \u2014 I\u2019m in to BDSM: Breaking the stock market.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sketch featured \u201cSNL regulars playing the tech billionaires who have flexed so much power over politics and culture in recent years. James Austin Johnson played Peter Thiel, Andrew Dismukes limned Mark Zuckerberg, Jane Wickline played Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, Jeremy Culhane inhabited Elon Musk and Ben Marshall spoofed OpenAI chief Sam Altman.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a CIA conference room setting, Mulaney\u2019s CIA agent used a pointer and monitor to flash Venn diagram graphics to school the billionaires in the difference between \u201cWoman who would actualy want to have sex with you\u201d and \u201cA woman who is clearly a spy.\u201d The sketch turned on the story that has made global headlines as Huang admitted to have a romantic relationship with a woman who is believed to be a spy for China. In the days since the scandal broke, allegations surfaced that Huang, who is married, had relationships with two employees at Nvidia.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNever date a human woman,\u201d Dismukes as Zuckerberg said of the lesson to draw from the Nvidia scandal. \u201cNever date anyone lest they become the antichrist,\u201d Johnson as Thiel offered. <\/p>\n

\n\tThiel defended the contributions of tech billionaires to the greater good and asked Mulaney to \u201cname one time when technology has let us down?\u201d Mulaney cited this week\u2019s one-two punch of the massive disruptions that exposed the vulnerabilities of our wired world: The five-hour national ground stop on air travel on Friday and Microsoft\u2019s widely used email platform Outlook experiencing a global outage for nearly 24 hours. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLike yesterday when every plane was grounded? Or the day before when Microsoft Outlook went dark?\u201d Mulaney said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAltman questioned whether he and Thiel, who are gay, needed the training to detect female spies. Johnson as Thiel added \u201cand we are both bears in the sense that we\u2019ve killed a lot of hikers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMulaney is notching his seventh time as host of \u201cSNL,\u201d after working on the show as a writer from 2008 to He\u2019s in the midst of a push for Amazon Prime Video\u2019s John Madden biopic \u201cMadden,\u201d which bows on the streamer and in limited theatrical release on Nov. 18. He\u2019s also touring at present on his \u201cMister Whatever\u201d stand-up tour. Mulaney most recently took the helm in November 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tPhoebe Bridgers will perform as \u201cSNL\u201d musical guest for the second time. She\u2019s currently on tour with her newest album \u201cLost Weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang made a surprise return to \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d in the cold open, playing the disgraced tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12395,88,12016],"class_list":["post-918180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bowen-yang","tag-entertainment","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}