'Saturday Night Live's Beck Bennett Names Elon Musk As the Series' 'Worst' Guest Host: 'He Was Hard to Deal With'
As expected from a series that's been on for as long as Saturday Night Live has, the hit sketch comedy series has seen its fair share of unremarkable hosts.
Whether looking at the show's early years in the 1970s or its more recent iterations, Saturday Night Live has regularly featured celebrities that have failed up to fans' expectations, either handing in a disappointing one-off episode or demonstrating atrocious behavior behind the scenes.
However, every once in a while there comes a star that blurs the lines between these characteristics, displaying poor etiquette backstage with the show's regular cast members, only to appear in an altogether forgettable hosted episode.
According to longtime SNL star Beck Bennett, Elon Musk was a notable example of this.
Appearing on an episode of The Last Laugh Podcast, Bennett revealed that, between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO seemed to be relatively harder to handle than the current president of the United States.
"As far as having billionaire personalities come on the show, Elon Musk was a lot more offensive," Bennett said. "That was harder to deal with."
Comparing the two divisive figures, Bennett said Trump seemed fairly indifferent to the experience of hosting SNL, remaining more or less hands off when it came to his hosting duties on the series back in 2015.
Conversely, Musk remained far more determined to insert his own ideas into his hosted episode, even when they might not have been as an entertaining as the X owner initially thought.
According to Bennett, Musk was also more abrasive in terms of his personality, displaying a rude attitude to the show's cast and crew when it came to their interactions.
"He had very odd ideas, and he was very rude and less predictable to perform with," Bennett said of Musk. "In a way Trump was a little bit more like, ‘You tell me where to go and what to say, and I'll tell you if I'm okay with that.'"
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This story was originally published May 27, 2026 at 7:25 AM.