Saturday Night Live brought back comedian and former SNL writer John Mulaney this week, accompanied by musical guest Phoebe Bridgers. It was Mulaney's seventh time as host, and they opened the show with a sketch tackling the recent headlines around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly having an extramarital relationship who may be a spy.
Mulaney played a CIA agent leading training on how to spot when a woman could be a spy. The training was for technology leaders, including Peter Thiel (James Austin Johnson), OpenAI chief Sam Altman (Ben Marshall), Anthropic chief Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline), Facebook/Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg (Andrew Dismukes) and Elon Musk (Jeremy Culhane).
After showing the tech gurus a Venn diagram that had no overlap between
"Beautiful Women" and "Your Interests and Opinions," the group got a surprise appearance from Huang. Former SNL star Bowen Yang played the disgraced CEO, saying "You know what’s about to go down — the S&P 500."
Yang also appeared in a sketch as Mary Todd Lincoln, a role he also plays on Broadway in the hit comedy, Oh, Mary! It was Yang's first appearance on SNL since he left the cast on December 20, 2025.
Saturday Night Live will return on December 5 with first-time host Amanda Seyfried and musical guest Don Tolliver.
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