Dana Carvey Concedes He Can’t “Do Elon Musk Very Well”
Dana Carvey admitted that his Elon Musk impression needs some work during the Friday edition of his Superfly podcast with fellow Saturday Night Live alum David Spade.
“I can’t do Elon Musk very well,” Carvey said after he slipped into his take on Musk and the Tesla CEO and X (formerly Twitter) owner’s embrace of “dark Maga.” “But I can do something that sounds not like anything. He has an incredible accent … South Africa via Canada, via Pennsylvania. It’s almost like, it’s a little bit of Australian in there, a little bit of British, but he’s not totally that.”
Carvey’s remarks come after Musk criticized his portrayal, and SNL in general, after the variety show responded to Donald Trump’s 2024 election win by sarcastically trying to get on the Republican president-elect’s good side in its Nov. 9 cold open.
The segment also included an appearance from Carvey as Musk,...
“I can’t do Elon Musk very well,” Carvey said after he slipped into his take on Musk and the Tesla CEO and X (formerly Twitter) owner’s embrace of “dark Maga.” “But I can do something that sounds not like anything. He has an incredible accent … South Africa via Canada, via Pennsylvania. It’s almost like, it’s a little bit of Australian in there, a little bit of British, but he’s not totally that.”
Carvey’s remarks come after Musk criticized his portrayal, and SNL in general, after the variety show responded to Donald Trump’s 2024 election win by sarcastically trying to get on the Republican president-elect’s good side in its Nov. 9 cold open.
The segment also included an appearance from Carvey as Musk,...
- 11/24/2024
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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