Bowen Yang Plays Jensen Huang in SNL Tech-Billionaire Sketch
The cold open mocked tech leaders' vulnerability to honey pot plots, with John Mulaney as a CIA official and Jeremy Culhane returning as Elon Musk.
Bowen Yang returned to Saturday Night Live to play Jensen Huang in the show's cold open on November 14, 2026, according to Deadline. The sketch satirized tech billionaires' susceptibility to honey pot plots.
The premise followed Huang's resignation as CEO of Nvidia after affair revelations, including one with a woman who may have been a Chinese spy. John Mulaney, who hosted this week's episode, played a CIA official in the sketch.
The cast filled out the tech roster: Jane Wickline appeared as Dario Amodei, Andrew Dismukes as Mark Zuckerberg, James Austin Johnson as Peter Thiel, Ben Marshall as Sam Altman and Jeremy Culhane returned as Elon Musk.
The sketch also referenced the midterms as a backlash against AI and touched on opposition to data centers. The CIA official noted that every plane in America had been grounded the previous day and that Microsoft had gone dark the day before that.
Quick answers
Who played Jensen Huang on Saturday Night Live?
Bowen Yang played Jensen Huang in the cold open of the November 14, 2026 episode.
Who hosted the episode?
John Mulaney hosted and played a CIA official in the sketch.