NEW YORK – Long foretold and expected, Elon Musk Saturday night he took the stage of “Saturday Night Live” (Snl), the longest-running comic variety in America, a springboard for many stars in recent years. The eccentric billionaire -ceo of Tesla and Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, one of the richest people on the planet- made fun of himself, even joked about the name of his son “X A-12 (” It is pronounced cat running on the keyboard “) and then admitted, for the first time, to be suffering from Asperger’s syndrome. Dressed all in black, he presented himself as” the first person with Asperger’s syndrome to be a guest of Snl … or at least to admit it “.
Casual, witty, apparently at ease despite not being a comedian or an actor, Musk at one point called his mother, Maye, a beautiful ex model and nutritionist guru on stage: a coexistence also justified by the fact that today is the feast of the mom. “I’m excited about the gift from Mom,” she joked. “I just hope it’s not a Dogecoin …”, the digital currency initially created as a joke, which Musk helped legitimize in his tweets. And he replied curtly: “Of course it is, for sure.”
Musk added that he is perfectly aware that he sometimes says or posts strange things, but added that this is how his brain works. “To whoever offended, I just want to say that I reinvented electric cars and I send people to Mars in a rocket. Did you even think I was going to be a normal, relaxed type?”. And since the broadcast was broadcast just in the hours in which the Chinese rocket, which then disintegrated over the Indian Ocean, returned to Earth, without control, the show’s hosts joked about it: “Why Elon Musk is the host of Snl? Now we know, he needed an alibi! “
The 49-year-old billionaire’s unusual performance on the SNL stage did not raise the price of the Dogecoin, which dropped by 5 cents during the show and then closed at around 55 cents. The Saturday night show will also be remembered because it was the first time that the show was broadcast in live streaming internationally: YouTube – has made it known Nbc– broadcast it to more than 100 countries, from Australia to the UK.
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