John Mulaney played a CIA official who summoned prominent tech figures to explain how to recognize when a potential date might be interested in their work. Ben Marshall played OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Jeremy Culhane portrayed Elon Musk, Andrew Dismukes played Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Jane Wickline appeared as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Johnson played Thiel.
The executives offered increasingly misguided explanations for why a beautiful woman might approach them. Altman credited his personality; Zuckerberg suggested that his Meta glasses, which recorded her, might make her feel at ease. Amodei initially came close to the answer Mulaney wanted, then decided she was interested in his body. Mulaney eventually used a Venn diagram to show a potential spy in the overlap between beautiful women and the executives’ interests and opinions.
Former cast member Bowen Yang made a surprise appearance as Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, wearing Huang’s signature leather jacket. Introducing himself as Jensen “Hide Your Wife” Huang, Yang’s character joked about the effect his visits had on the stock market before advising the executives: “Fellas, don’t be like me. Remember, women don’t like guys like us. That’s how we became guys like us.”
The sketch followed the November 7 opener, in which Johnson’s Trump reacted to Democrats’ midterm wins. Texas senator-elect James Talarico joked about how often the show used the same setup; Trump’s answer to how long it might continue was “Infinity!” After the November 14 broadcast, one X user wrote, “Oh my god, a Trumpless ‘SNL’ cold open. I prayed for a day like this.” Another called it refreshing not to see Trump in the opener.
The sketch also drew on headlines about Huang. The source reports that he stepped down as Nvidia CEO on November 12, following reports about his relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive at Nvidia customer Megaspeed. In a statement before his resignation, Huang acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife and apologized to his family. The statement did not name Alice Huang; the two share a surname and are unrelated. U.S. authorities were reported to be investigating whether she was spying for China. Beijing denied she was a spy, and Reuters said it had not independently verified whether she worked for the Chinese government. Nvidia’s independent board members said they had hired an outside law firm to investigate.
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