SNL: Elon Musk Doesn’t Deserve To Host

“Saturday Night Live” has encouraged to host its own May 8 series a billionaire who stated”that the coronavirus fear is idiotic,” encouraged the prospective benefits of “chloroquine,” compared the lethal virus into some other kind of this chilly in January 2020, and in March 2020 called to his countless Twitter followers there could be”near zero fresh instances” from the end of April — the month that he wanted an end to stunt closures.

No, it is not disgraced former President Donald Trump. This time, manufacturers have tapped Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla.

Why would the longest-running late-night humor series — now in its 46th year — inquire Musk to sponsor an incident? Presumably, it is because the series wishes to stay relevant. And despite “SNL,” it has to do that. However, the series, in which I worked on the production team for eight seasons, if do better than bestowing that honor on Musk, awarded his reckless statements about Covid-19 along with his insensitive comments surrounding the transgender community.

Musk wasn’t only outspoken in sabotaging the dangers posed in the coronavirus, he publicly slammed the efforts of health officials to rescue lives shape Covid, from calling stay-at-home orders”fascist” to converse in April 2020 “FREE AMERICA NOW,” two weeks later Trump had tweeted in all caps to “LIBERATE” particular nations from Covid-related closures.

And in May 2020, when Musk reopened his Tesla auto plant in California in defiance of the nation’s Covid orders,’ Trump commended Musk on Twitter, making a “Thank you!” back from Musk. We learned that over 400 Tesla workers tested positive for Covid between May and December 2020.

Americans are still dying every day from this virus which Musk used his stage to wrongfully downplay. In reality, Covid took the lifetime of this series’s beloved longtime music producer Hal Willner in April 2020, together with the series honoring him with a montage along with the converse, “We Love you, Hal.” Willner expired at precisely the same period Musk was spewing an unkind bevy of misinformation concerning the dangers posed by the virus.

Then there is Musk’s callousness toward the transgender American neighborhood. In December 2020he also caused a backlash for sharing Twitter that a meme saw as”transphobic” and fueled further controversy when he reacted to criticism by conversing, “I totally encourage trans, but all these pronouns are an exaggeration”.

The Human Rights Campaign, a top LGBTQ rights firm that had previously given Tesla an award for fostering equality, called on Musk to apologize and noticed that his conversation mocking pronouns “is precisely the reverse of what inclusive direction looks like today.” Musk never dreamed.

Certainly, the manufacturers in “SNL” understood all this, nevertheless have apparently chosen to ignore it in the pursuit of ratings and value. Musk will boast over 52 million Twitter followers and a loyal fan base. And “SNL” may use a rating bump, using its ratings that spring, such as cable information, having lost — average following presidential election information winds down.

The initial “SNL” series after the November election saw extremely remarkable viewers of 9.1 million viewers, a high. In contrast, its latest live show on April 10, sponsored by Oscar-nominated celebrity Carey Mulligan, won just 3.6 million viewers, which has become the average for current displays.

That stated, “SNL” remains No. 1 about evaluations for many comedies on cable and network at the advertiser-coveted market of 18-49 years old with this TV year — a first for the series at all its years on the atmosphere. Along with the show’s social networking interactions come up from this past year.

Component of the inspiration for “SNL” booking Musk, however, is beyond evaluations — it is to get people discussing the series as they did nearly each time Alec Baldwin portrayed Trump. With Musk hosting, there’ll definitely be a tsunami of news reports surrounding the May 8 series. Again, these are valid goals from the entertainment business, however, the question is, at what cost?

Musk’s remarks aren’t from years back. All his Covid remarks were made at the previous 13 weeks, in which as a country we watched over 570,000 of our fellow Americans perish from this hazardous pandemic. The pain for families that have lost family members is still quite fresh and very actual. What do you really believe that these families will consider “SNL” for providing a platform to a man who threatened the risks posed by the virus which took the life of the family member?

To be clear, this isn’t about freedom of speech or silencing Musk’s viewpoints. He’s got a huge social networking platform and can bring in media coverage will. The issue is, does Musk deserve the privilege of hosting the best late-night humor series of the time? The solution is certainly not.