Elon Musk to host ‘Saturday Night Live’

ELON MUSK
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There have been some unexpected “Saturday Night Live” hosts over the years.

Turn the clock back far enough and you will find that the long-running late-night comedy series has offered its stage to such unlikely candidates as Brandon Tartikoff, when he was the president of NBC’s entertainment division, and George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees.اضافة اعلان

Now it seems that “Saturday Night Live” is attempting its own moonshot of sorts. NBC said Saturday that Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and chief engineer of SpaceX, would host the program on May 8. Miley Cyrus, the pop singer and a frequent performer on “SNL,” will be the musical guest that night. The announcement was made a few hours after the Crew Dragon Endeavour had successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday morning.

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