As Dana Carvey appeared Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher, he introduced just a few acquainted voices with him.
The Saturday Night Live alum rapidly whipped out his impressions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, noting that he’s “working on” the latter after Musk seemed to be delay by the impersonation throughout a post-election SNL look in November.
“So, Trump’s there, and he’s got the tie, and then Elon is up there talking, right?” he defined. “And I don’t really do it yet, but I’m working on it.”
In his greatest Musk mumble, Carvey stated, “We got to go to Mars, because we can’t sustain life on planet Earth. We gotta go to Mars, it’s just gonna be really cool, OK? Mhm, mhm, mhm.”
Pivoting to his Trump impression, the comic responded, “What he said. He’s a smart cookie, he’s a tough cookie, he’s a Cookie Monster. This one, he’s smart. Everybody talks about it. He’s like Chips Ahoy.”
Dana Carvey as Elon Musk on ‘Saturday Night Live’
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After Carvey debuted his Musk impression on SNL, Musk shared his criticism to his personal social platform the subsequent day. “They are so mad that @realDonaldTrump won,” he wrote in a single response on X, including in one other: “Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.”
Musk additionally took intention on the long-running NBC sketch comedy present. “SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, Carvey was large enough to confess he didn’t nail the impression. “I can’t do Elon Musk very well,” he stated on his Superfly podcast. “But I can do something that sounds not like anything. He has an incredible accent — South Africa via Canada, via Pennsylvania. It’s almost like, it’s a little bit of Australian in there, a little bit of British, but he’s not totally that.”
Nobody was off limits throughout Carvey’s temporary sit-down with Maher as he additionally served impressions of Joe Biden, RFK Jr., JFK, Johnny Carson, Bill Gates, Gollum, Woody Allen and Paul McCartney.