Dana Carvey Sets December Return To ‘SNL’ & Responds To Elon Musk Criticism

Dana Carvey isn’t done with his return to Saturday Night Live, although he’s probably packing in the Elon Musk impression for now.

While sharing an anecdote about recent host John Mulaney, the SNL alum revealed he’s returning to the NBC sketch comedy show next month amid his guest appearances as Joe Biden and Musk.

“When you leave the good nights at SNL, sometimes you do it with the host. You go under the bleachers and you come out. So I think it was John Mulaney. He just went right before me, and I think he was going, and then he started skipping,” he recalled on his Superfly podcast. “And I started skipping too, and skipping feels really good compared to walking or even running. It’s kinda gentle.”

Carvey continued, “So now, if you ever see me on SNL — I’m going back in December — you see me come off the stage, just remember, within seconds, I will be skipping for quite a while. That’s kinda inside baseball.”

The Emmy winner also responded to Musk’s outrage over his recent impression of the X and Tesla mogul, admitting he didn’t nail that one.

“I can’t do Elon Musk very well,” conceded Carvey. “But I can do something that sounds not like anything. He has an incredible accent — South Africa via Canada, via Pennsylvania. It’s almost like, it’s a little bit of Australian in there, a little bit of British, but he’s not totally that.”

Musk previously declared the show has been “dying slowly for years” after Carvey impersonated him in a post-election cold open. “Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey,” he wrote on his own platform.

After his seven-season run from 1986 to 1993, Carvey returned to SNL this season to play President Joe Biden leading up to Election Day, along with Maya Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris, Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff and Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz.