The choice to have Elon Musk host the Could 8 episode of Saturday Night time Reside has drawn some backlash on-line. It has additionally led to criticism from no fewer than 4 members of the SNL workforce.

In a Tweet on April 24, the Tesla CEO wrote “Let’s discover out simply how reside Saturday Night time Reside actually is” with a satan horns emoji. That tweet was screengrabbed by SNL solid member Bowen Yang, who responded first with a frowny face, then with “What the fuck does this even imply?” in Instagram tales captured by Bustle.

Andrew Dismukes, one other solid member, wrote “ONLY CEO I WANT TO DO A SKETCH WITH IS Cher-E Oteri,” in his personal Instagram story. The submit was a reference to former solid member Cheri Oteri.

The reasoning behind a few of the objections got here extra clearly into view with Instagram tales by solid member Aidy Briant and author Sudi Inexperienced. Every posted an image of a Tweet by Bernie Sanders calling America’s wealth disparity “an ethical obscenity,” albeit with no caption.

Because the second richest person on Earth, who’s accused of getting participated in a Bolivian coup and moved to Texas allegedly in order to avoid income taxes, Musk is an energetic participant within the wealth hole that the previous presidential candidate was decrying.

Musk has additionally come below fireplace for evaluating pandemic-related stay-at-home order “home arrest” and for downplaying the risk of the coronavirus. He has additionally come out in opposition to receiving the vaccines.

It was his juvenile humorousness, although, that bothered the Desus and Mero TV sequence author Josh Gondelman who tweeted that “Elon Musk internet hosting SNL is large for guys nonetheless making ‘that’s what she stated’ jokes who assume they’d be nice at internet hosting SNL.”