Saturday Night Live returned this weekend with a bold cold‑open that lampooned the tech elite. In the sketch, a CIA guide, played by host John Mulaney, warned the nation’s most prominent tech CEOs – including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – about the danger of women who might be spies.
Sketch highlights
The guide’s line, “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,” set the tone for the satire. Mulaney, a former SNL writer, referenced recent headlines about Nvidia’s former CEO Jensen Huang, who resigned amid reports of personal scandals.
Andrew Dismukes, portraying Zuckerberg, quipped, “Never date a human woman,” a line that Mulaney promptly dismissed. The joke prompted a defense from a character playing PayPal co‑founder Peter Thiel, portrayed by James Austin Johnson, who urged respect for the tech community’s contributions to the country.
Mulaney then cited recent tech‑related disruptions, such as a nationwide flight ground stop and a global Microsoft outage, before humorously noting how rare it is for men “as pale and as strange as you” to survive with “all the world’s wealth and power.” He urged the tech titans to remember their dating lives before fame and fortune.
Jensen Huang cameo
The sketch culminated with Bowen Yang returning to portray Jensen “Hide Your Wife” Huang. Yang’s character claimed involvement in BDSM and warned the CEOs against following his example, delivering the punchline, “Women don’t like guys like us. That’s how we became guys like us.”
Following the cold‑open, Yang appeared in a second sketch, “Little Park of Horrors,” a parody of Broadway musicals that imagined a city banning horse‑drawn carriages. The sketch featured characters riding through the Lincoln Tunnel and being confronted by a Mary Todd Lincoln figure, played by Yang, who sang about the high cost of the subterranean journey.
Bowen Yang, a former SNL repertory player and writer, left the show in December 2025 and made his Broadway debut in September as Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” The night’s musical guest was Phoebe Bridgers. SNL airs on NBC, a division of NBCUniversal, which also owns NBC News.
Original reporting: NBC10 Boston — read the source article.
