The former actor made his first appearance on the series since December 2025.
Bowen Yang crashed last Saturday evening live cold open to skewer former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The real Huang resigned this week following reports of an alleged extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy. The 63-year-old billionaire is said to have had at least two other affairs over the years.
Yang appeared in Huang’s leather jacket and offered advice to a group of fellow tech CEOs, including Elon Musk, played once again by Jeremy Culhane, on how to avoid the same fate.
(The real one) Jensen Huang speaks at GTC Berlin.
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“Guys, don’t be like me,” Huang said of Yang. “Remember, women don’t like men like us. That’s how we became men like us.”
Culhane’s Musk replied awkwardly: “But I’m like you. You know, we both have cool leather jackets, and we can be, like, in a biker gang, you know, like, both on Harley Davidsons…”
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Huang cut Musk off by dousing him with water and shouting, “Bad Elon!”
Huang called himself “Jensen ‘hide your wife’ Huang,” adding, “Ladies, when you invite Jensen into your home, you know what’s going to happen: the S&P 500.”
He jokingly added: “That’s right, I’m into BDSM: breaking the purse.”
Yang’s appearance follows several days of fan speculation about who might play the scandal-plagued tech CEO.
Marvel star Simu Liu publicly threw his hat into the ring, posting on SNL.”
The cold open focused on host John Mulaney teaching a group of billionaire tech CEOs how to distinguish between women who are genuinely attracted to them and those who might be spies, all in the interest of national security.
“I can’t imagine how disorienting it’s been for you to go from being these little bug-eyed weirdos to being like gods,” Mulaney told the CEOs, including Peter Thiel (James Austin Johnson), OpenAI chief Sam Altman (Ben Marshall), Mark Zuckerberg (Andrew Dismukes), and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline).
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg from SNL
Mulaney continued, “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 wealth and power in the world.”
At one point, Thiel told Mulaney, “Hey, show us some respect. We do a lot for this country. Name a time when technology failed us.”
“Yesterday when every plane in America was grounded,” Mulaney responded.
“OK, name it again,” Thiel said.
“The day before when Microsoft Outlook went dark,” Mulaney said.
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