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Saturday Night Live – Season 46, Episode 18 Elon Musk; Miley Cyrus

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Saturday Night Live – Season 46, Episode 18

Elon Musk; Miley Cyrus

Aired May 8, 2021

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Host Elon Musk; Miley Cyrus performs.

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Musical guest Miley Cyrus delivers, but as a host Elon Musk proves more of a wet blanket than a flamethrower.

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Sarah Manavis

New Statesman

05/12/2021

Much like Trump's own turn, Musk's episode was, on the face of it, unremarkable. None of the sketches was particularly funny or particularly cringey, or triggered a major fallout.

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Spencer Kornhaber

The Atlantic

05/10/2021

The episode that ultimately aired didn't feel worth the fuss. It wasn't offensive, redemptive, memorable, or even entertaining.

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Phil Owen

TheWrap

05/10/2021

[Musk's] just a black hole of fun, without a shred of charisma, and he delivered a performance that's on the level of what you'd expect to see in a middle school play.

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Jesse Hassenger

Consequence

05/10/2021

The real surprise, though, was how regular-bad the rest of the show was apart from Musk's stilted contributions-easily the weakest crop of sketches to appear this season, even with the host on the margins.

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Ethan Anderton

Slashfilm

05/10/2021

Even so, despite the fact that this is one of the lower end episodes of the season, I've seen far worse episodes throughout the history of SNL. And that's what makes last night's buzz about this episode so frustrating.

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Synopsis

Host Elon Musk; Miley Cyrus performs.

Creator: Lorne Michaels
Executive Producer: Lorne Michaels
Network: NBC
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2021

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