'SNL': Elon Musk's Absurd Wario Sketch Has Viewers in Disbelief
Businessman Elon Musk played the anti-hero of the Super Mario franchise in an SNL sketch this [...]
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Wario costume now $40.99 https://t.co/mW8TowRkCA
— Wario64 (@Wario64) May 9, 2021
Some joked that the sketch idea must have come about because it was cheap and easy, posting links to affordable Wario costumes online. Some even suspected they had found the one Musk was wearing in the sketch.
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#SaturdayNightLive
— aMucc (@amurkymuc) May 9, 2021
Lorne Michaels watching the Gen Z Hospital sketch, the Wario sketch, and this whole show tonight… pic.twitter.com/iWhvpUmEmk
SNL looms large in the comedy genre and in the entertainment industry as a whole, and many fans thought that this episode did not live up to its standards. They imagined the series creator Lorne Michaels watching in horror.
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— Garrett Gilchrist (@TygerbugGarrett) May 9, 2021
According to a report by The Verge, at the time so many people were mocking Musk that Twitter had to create a new policy where any user who changed their display name to "Elon Musk" was automatically suspended. Somehow, "Italian Elon Musk" outlived them all and became the king of the Elon parodies for a brief time.
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Dude just one dogo tweet that's what we want...... Do it https://t.co/Q58LVsWocg
— Shivam Dayma (@ShivamDayma6) May 9, 2021
The future is ruined for our family, who believed in your wisdom with Doge. Thank you for everything.And I'm sorry I'm not rich enough to laugh at this.
— 이준표 (@3lHx5RPOw5QA3B8) May 9, 2021
After the show, Musk's first post was to say that "Wario" had been his favorite part of the night. Fans responded in outrage, calling on him to comment on the rapid decline in Dogecoin prices.
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GRIMES AS PEACH AND ELON AS WARIO IM CACKLING #SNL pic.twitter.com/EmvzVy2sWn
— Mariana (@Marispiva) May 9, 2021
The one where they cut to your partner’s cameo and there was that big awkward silence where everyone waited for the audience to recognize her and clap but they didn’t? Okay https://t.co/eOeRYMKe9N
— Ryan (@rysimmons) May 9, 2021
Musk's girlfriend Grimes made an appearance in this sketch as well, though it did not get many comments. Those that did mention it tended to focus on how few other people were mentioning it.
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mfw i lose $50,000 to fucking wario pic.twitter.com/BQK9j9x7Nk
— Sam Gordon (@notSamGordon) May 9, 2021
The world's richest man is on national television dressed as Wario after having compared the value of a joke cryptocurrency to the global reserve currency only seconds before.
The memes are the message.
— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) May 9, 2021
Many were watching the cryptocurrency markets alongside SNL this weekend, expecting Musk's public endorsement of Dogecoin to move the needle. They were horrified to see the Dogecoin price dropping rapidly at the exact same time he was on screen dressed as a Nintendo character.
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Just heard we were mentioned on that Wario SNL skit (and then they display a screencap of the wikia/fandom page, nice hackfraudery there)? That's... something I guess?
— Super Mario Wiki (@SMWikiOfficial) May 9, 2021
I do wish our first reference on national television wasn't on something so terminally unfunny though..! pic.twitter.com/jVw4edK7Dt
Finally, the account of the Super Mario Wiki responded to the sketch's prominent citation on Twitter, calling it "terminally unfunny."
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