“Saturday Night Live” roasted ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over his affair with a suspected Chinese spy — bringing back Bowen Yang to play the disgraced tech executive.
Yang, who departed the NBC show in December, made a surprise appearance during Saturday’s cold open, playing a leather jacket-clad Huang who introduced himself as “Jensen ‘Hide Your Wife’ Huang.”
“Ladies, when you invite Jensen over, you know what’s about to go down: the S&P 500,” Yang joked, poking fun at the hit to Nvidia’s stock price.
“That’s why I’m into BDSM: Breaking Da Stock Market,” he continued, drawing laughs from the crowd.
“Fellas, don’t be like me. Remember, women don’t like guys like us. That’s how we became guys like us,” Yang quipped.
The sketch centered around host John Mulaney playing a CIA official who gathered tech heavyweights including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and Sam Altman, for a lesson on spotting foreign spies — portrayed by Jeremy Culhane, Andrew Dismukes, James Austin Johnson and Ben Marshall, respectively.
“America needs you to learn the difference between a woman who would actually want to have sex with you and a woman who is clearly a spy,” Mulaney said.
He then pulled out a Venn diagram to explain the problem.
“OK, on this side we have ‘Beautiful Women,’ and on this side we have people who would be interested in your shared interests and opinions. I cannot stress this enough: there is no overlap!” he said.
“So, if someone is both of these things, they are a what?” Mulaney asked.
“An angel?!” replied Dario Amodei, played by Jane Wickline.
“No. They are a spy,” Mulaney responded.
The jokes came two days after Huang, 63, quit as Nvidia CEO on Thursday amid mounting controversy over his alleged affairs with multiple women.
US intelligence officials have suspected for about a year that Huang’s alleged mistress Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based company Megaspeed, was spying for Beijing. She is not related to the former Nvidia boss.
Investigators began examining Alice Huang after Megaspeed was accused of illegally diverting Nvidia AI chips to China, following a US ban on the chip sales over national security concerns.
The controversy widened after the New York Times reported Wednesday that Huang had also allegedly been involved with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare.
It then emerged that Huang had allegedly been involved with a third woman at Nvidia, Reuters reported Thursday.
Huang, who married his wife, Lori, in 1985, apologized for being unfaithful to her and hurting their two children after the first affair allegations emerged.
“I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did,” he said Sunday.
Nvidia, which ranks as the world’s second-most valuable company behind Apple, has seen its stock plunge roughly 20% since the start of November amid the scandal.
Huang has also agreed to testify before Congress before Thanksgiving.