SNL Uses Star Trek and Owen Wilson to Drag Jeff Bezos

Star Trek’s fairly cool more often than not, proper? Traveling area and exploring the celebrities appears like a dream, however one we might not reside to see. Unless you’re Jeff Bezos, in fact, and a brand new Saturday Night Live sketch reminds us how a lot it sucks that solely the elite will get to expertise area.

With Owen Wilson as the primary visitor of its forty seventh season, final night time’s premiere featured a sketch that noticed Marvel’s Loki star tackle the position of Amazon’s ex-CEO Jeff Bezos. In the cleverly named Star Trek: Ego Quest, Bezos is the cowboy hat-wearing captain of the SS New Shipment. No ship is full with out its crew, and Bezos’ contains his youthful brother Mark (performed by Wilson’s brother Luke), Dutch 18-year-old Oliver Daemon, and astronaut Wally Funk! All three joined Bezos on his area flight this previous July. “Their mission,” the narrator intones, “to just sorta fly around space goofing off… in a ship that looks like a penis.” Joining the distinguished Paramount+ lineup of Star Trek reveals in 2023, naturally.

As a Star Trek sketch, it’s fairly humorous. Wilson will get to go goofy in a means he hasn’t gotten to in a while as Bezos dicks round with Richard Branson and the pair casually flaunts their wealth by crashing into area stations. Other than a reasonably strong dig about Amazon’s well-reported poor therapy of its employees, the very best second comes with the cameo of Elon Musk (Mikey Day) and his SpaceX vessel. That bizarre twitch Musk has as he laughs is haunting.

Wilson’s different Amazon-related sketch is possibly too bizarre for its personal good. It begins with him and a bunch of buddies attempting to evenly break up their checks. Just as Wilson’s orders get larger and stranger, issues take a tough left flip and convey Nazis into the image. It’s presupposed to be a dig at Amazon Prime’s varied TV reveals, however the punchline takes just a little too lengthy to get there. So mainly, it’s an ordinary SNL sketch.

Still, Wilson’s Star Trek sketch comes at simply the fitting time. At the top of the month on October 28, Prodigy will hit Paramount+ and be the primary children present for the collection. The following month on November 18, Discovery will return for its fourth season. Star Trek’s different two huge reveals—Strange New Worlds and the second season of Picard—will each land in 2022.

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