“You’re so funny. I bet you have a great social security number.”
Saturday Night Live took aim at Elon Musk’s Twitter staff cuts and the potential for the spread of misinformation with a mock panel hearing why bad actors should reinstate their accounts.
“They said I was a bot, which is crazy. I’m all woman and I love funny guys like you,” Amy Schumer said. “Actually, you should check out this website where me and some other girls hang out and meet cool guys: www.sexpalace.bitcoinscam.iraq.”
“Sounds too good to be true,” replied Kenan Thompson, playing one half of the board, which was made up of the rest of Twitter’s workforce.
“Oh my God. You’re so funny,” Schumer continued dubiously. “I bet you have a great social security number.”
“No. It’s nothing crazy. It’s only 04378,” Thompson said before being corrected by colleague Chloe Fineman.
Later, James Austin Johnson as former President Donald Trump took his turn, and he started by getting confused about his middle name, John, before getting back on point.
“Why do you want to go back to Twitter?” Fineman asked. “Haven’t you created your own social media website?”
“Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m sorry, – he answered. “Yes, we’ve all switched to Social Truth and we love Social Truth. It is very wonderful, and in many ways also terrifying. It’s too bad. Very, very bad. It’s a bit buggy in terms of cracking the phone screen and automatically downloading Venmo. Anyway, let me get back to Twitter. I will make another ‘covfefe’. I will not do anything bad, except for a coup d’état.”
“Okay”, came the naive reply from the council. “Might as well roll the dice, right?”
