Saturday Night Live aired a new cold‑open this weekend that skewered the world of tech moguls and the CIA. Bowen Yang returned to the show, portraying former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a sketch that blended satire with current cultural commentary.
Sketch premise
The sketch placed the nation’s most prominent tech CEOs—including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg—at a fictional CIA gathering designed to teach them how to spot a woman who might be a spy. John Mulaney, the night’s host and former SNL writer, played the CIA guide who warned, “America needs you to learn the difference between a woman who would actually want to have sex with you and a woman who is clearly a spy.”
Tech leaders mocked
In the sketch, Zuckerberg, portrayed by Andrew Dismukes, replied, “Never date a human woman.” The line prompted a rebuttal from a character playing PayPal co‑founder Peter Thiel, played by James Austin Johnson, who defended the tech elite, saying, “We do a lot for this country. Name one time technology has let us down.” Mulaney countered by citing recent nationwide flight disruptions and a global Microsoft outage.
Jensen Huang cameo
The sketch culminated with Yang’s introduction of Jensen Huang, who joked, “It’s me, Jensen ‘Hide Your Wife’ Huang,” and warned the tech titans about their dating choices, noting, “Women don’t like guys like us. That’s how we became guys like us.” The segment blended humor about wealth, power and modern romance.
Additional SNL bits
Yang also appeared in a later sketch, “Little Park of Horrors,” a parody of Broadway musicals that imagined a city banning horse‑drawn carriages. The sketch featured a comedic journey through the Lincoln Tunnel, ending with a musical number by a character playing Mary Todd Lincoln.
Bowen Yang, who joined SNL as a writer in 2018 and became a cast member in 2019, left the show in December 2025 and recently made his Broadway debut as Lincoln in Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” The night’s musical guest was Phoebe Bridgers. SNL continues to air on NBC, a division of NBCUniversal.
Original reporting: NBC10 Boston — read the source article.
