“Saturday Night Live” alum Bowen Yang made a surprise appearance in the show’s cold open as former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to offer some advice to other tech CEOs.
While Yang only appeared for a moment at the end of the sketch, a CIA agent (played by host John Mulaney) lectured tech CEOs Elon Musk (played by Jeremy Culhane), Mark Zuckerberg (Andrew Dismukes), Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline), Sam Altman (Ben Marshall) and Peter Thiel (James Austin Johnson) about avoiding getting romantically entangled with Chinese spies.
“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,” Mulaney said.
Mulaney proceeded to ask the five CEOs what they think the lesson is from the Huang scandal, and they gave very wrong answers.
“Look, I get it. I can’t imagine how disorienting this has been for you,” Mulaney said. “To go from these bug-eyed little weirdos to being gods. I mean, never in the history of our species have people as pale and as strange as you, A) survived and B) been given all the world’s wealth and power.”
Mulaney then showed the CEOs a Venn diagram with “beautiful women” on one side and “your interests and opinions.”
“I cannot stress this enough, there is no overlap,” Mulaney said. “So if someone is both of these things, they are a what?”
“An angel,” Amodei said in the sketch.
“No, they are a spy,” Mulaney said.
After Mulaney spent several more minutes trying to hammer home the point, he summoned Huang (Yang) to give the CEOs a firsthand account.
“You know what, maybe what would help is if I handed over to someone who learned this lesson the hard way,” Mulaney said before Yang entered to roaring applause.
“It’s me, Jensen ‘Hide Your Wife’ Huang. Ladies, when you invite Jensen over, you know what’s about to go down: the S&P 500,” Huang said in the sketch. “That’s right, I’m into BDSM, Breakin Da Stock Market. Fellas, don’t be like me; remember women don’t like guys like us; that’s how we became guys like us.”
Watch the full “SNL” cold open here: