It’s good to see Mike Myers back on the Studio 8H stage.
Just weeks after appearing on SNL50: The Anniversary Special, Myers made a surprise in-season Saturday Night Live appearance at the top of the March 1, 2025 episode. In “Elon Musk Cold Open,” Myers unveiled a killer impression of tech billionaire and newly-minted government official Elon Musk.
Myers’ cameo came toward the end of the cold open, which satirized a high-profile February 28 meeting that NBC News called “a remarkable confrontation, with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance chastising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and telling him he wasn’t grateful enough to the United States.” Cast member Bowen Yang once again portrayed Vance alongside James Austin Johnson‘s Trump, while Mikey Day was Zelenskyy and Marcello Hernández played Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a silent, seemingly unwilling participant.
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“Yesterday, President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the white House. And it went really, really well,” an announcer (Steve Higgins) said, setting the scene. “Everyone who watched felt at ease and thought, ‘the world is now a safer place.’ Here now is a replay of their historic press conference.”
Trump (Johnson) opened what was meant to be a negotiation with, “I’d like to welcome President Zelenskyy here to this incredible trap. It’s going to be a big, beautiful trap, and we’re going to attack him very soon for no reason. Right JD?”
“Watch out. Cause this kitty’s got claws,” Yang’s Vance agreed, adding a “rawr!”
Telling Day’s Zelenskyy that he’s dressed “like casual Star Trek,” Trump asked the European leader, “You want to say a few words? Maybe tell Mr. Putin how much you love him and that you’re sorry you invaded Russia? Maybe you offer him one night with your wife?”
“Mr. President, with all due respect,” Zelenskyy began, before Yang’s Vance interrupted with, “I have to jump in here because that’s how we planned this. What happened to ‘thank you’, okay?”
“Oh, man. Look at Rubio over there, fully dissociating,” Trump said, as Hernandez’s Rubio widened his eyes. “He looks like Homer Simpson disappearing into that hedge. To quote the late, good Tom Petty, he’s ‘Free Fallin’.'”
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Mike Myers interrupts Zelenskyy meeting in SNL’s “Elon Musk Cold Open”
Both in the sketch and in the real-life meeting, Trump and Vance’s comments toward Zelenskyy included jabs at his informal clothing. “You’re not even wearing a suit. It’s disrespectful,” Trump told him. “Who shows up to the White House in a T-shirt and jeans like a garbage person?”
Cue Elon Musk (Mike Myers), wielding the chainsaw that the real Musk did at the February 21 CPAC conference in celebration of cuts his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made to federal budgets. Myers’ Musk wore the uniform Musk has worn in lieu of a suit on both the Trump campaign trail and his own televised visit to the Oval Office: a black T-shirt, blazer, and black MAGA baseball cap.
“We love your outfit. Very official and respectful,” Johnson’s Trump told him.
“Donald, what are you doing in my office? You know I’m the president now, right?” Musk asked him. “I’m kidding. I’m kidding — maybe not? Awesome, awesome.”
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Myers then burst into the real Musk’s call to “legalize comedy!” at the CPAC conference. And while he lapsed into a self-described “glitch” at one point, he got to introduce a new branch of his agency with Musk’s real-life 19-year-old employee Edward Coristine (Andrew Dismukes): “The Department of Undoing Child Health Care and Education.”
“Well, I think that concludes a pretty much perfect press conference,” Trump declared. “We humiliated this guy, and JD finally got to audition for Real Housewives of Potomac.”
Watch SNL‘s “Elon Musk Cold Open” above.
Mike Myers was an SNL cast member from 1989 to 1995. Incredibly, Myers has only hosted Saturday Night Live once, on March 22, 1997.
During his tenure on the show he was known for several enduring characters, including Wayne Campbell, “Sprockets” host Dieter, bath-loving English boy Simon, and “Coffee Talk” host Linda Richman.
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Before SNL: The Anniversary Special, Myers had not appeared on Saturday Night Live since 2005 — making his return as Elon Musk especially momentous.
