The controversial postelection episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’ got a lot of people talking — including Elon Musk

• The “Saturday Night Live” post-election episode did not land well with fans of the show or Elon Musk.
• Fans called Bill Burr, this week’s host, racist and sexist after his controversial opening monologue.
• Musk criticized the show after Dana Carvey did an impression of him.

The “Saturday Night Live” post-election episode was criticized by people across the political spectrum, including Elon Musk.

The show featured a controversial monologue by comedian Bill Burr, and a skit featuring SNL alumnus Dana Carvey doing an impression of Musk.

In 2016 and 2020, when Donald Trump and Joe Biden won the presidential races, respectively, Dave Chappelle hosted the first post-election episodes. It’s unclear why he wasn’t chosen this year, but in recent years he has been criticized for jokes viewed as antisemitic and transphobic.

Burr took over this year, and joked that Asian people spread COVID-19 and that women should “whore it up” to become president.

“Listen, I know a lot of ugly women, feminists I mean, don’t want to hear this message. But just tease him a little bit. Make a farmer feel like he’s got a shot,” Burr advised future female presidential candidates after Kamala Harris lost to Trump last week.

Some fans called Burr’s jokes racist and sexist.

Other defended the jokes, saying that critics were being too sensitive.

Later in the monologue, Burr turned his attention to Trump, calling him an “orange bigot” and “lunatic,” but those jokes appear to have been overshadowed by his previous comments.

Burr is known for being controversial, with his last appearance on SNL in 2020 receiving a similarly mixed response from fans after he made jokes about white women, anti-maskers, and Pride month.

Before Burr’s monologue, the show opened with the “Saturday Night Live” cast standing together onstage saying that they have always been Trump supporters, in an apparent joke about companies currying favor with the president-elect. Some fans said the joke wasn’t funny.

Later in the skit, James Austin Johnson, a cast member who usually impersonates Trump, appeared as a “Hot Jacked Trump,” while Carvey sent up Musk, who was instrumental to Trump’s election campaign.

On Sunday, Musk, who has previously hosted the show, replied to three different X users to criticize the show.

NBC and Burr’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.