Saturday evening live isn’t ready to lose Dana Carvey again.

Saturday’s post-election episode of the NBC sketch show was the first time this season without Maya Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris, following Harris’ real-life defeat to former President Donald Trump this week. But fellow recurring alum Carvey, who has played President Joe Biden since the season 50 premiere, was back in Studio 8H, this time as billionaire Trump backer Elon Musk.

The cold open kicked off with cast members Bowen Yang, Ego Nwodim, Kenan Thompson, Heidi Gardner, Sarah Sherman, Marcello Hernández and Colin Jost sarcastically insisting that they had all been supporting the president-elect this whole time. “We have never wavered in our support of you, even when others doubted you,” Yang shouted into the camera as he addressed Trump. “We see ourselves in you,” Nwodim insisted. “We look at you and think, ‘That’s me.'”

After stating that the season’s three new players – Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline – were the only staffers who voted for Harris, Sherman said the show was excited to debut a new impression: “Hot Jacked Trump.”

“They finally found the body properly,” he said SNL’Trump impersonator, James Austin Johnson, wears an exaggerated muscular suit. “From now on, we’re going to do a very flattering portrayal of Trump, because honestly, he’s my hero, and he’s going to be an incredible president and ultimately king. We love you, friend.”

Thompson then offered some encouragement. “If our planet falls apart, we can all go to Mars with the other man we love and trust: Elon Musk,” he said. Then entered an energetic Carvey, who jumped across the stage in an all-black outfit identical to the one the real Musk wore when he jumped across the stage at a Trump rally last month.

“Look, dark MAGA,” Carvey’s Musk shouted, pointing to his black “Make America Great Again” baseball cap. “But seriously, I’m running the country now. America is going to be like one of my rockets, you know, they’re super cool and super fun, but there’s a small chance it will blow up and everyone will die.”

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The cast ended the chill with a rendition of Village People’s “Macho Man,” with Carvey’s Musk and Johnson’s ripped Trump joining in. This was a callback to Alec Baldwin’s Trump, who somberly sang a version of the song in the episode that followed the 45th president’s speech. loss in 2020, which was of course a preview of an earlier cold open in which Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton infamously performed “Hallelujah” on a piano following the former secretary of state’s 2016 loss to Trump.

Carvey, a master impressionist who wrote the SNL cast from 1986-1993, returned this season to play Biden as part of a political quartet that dominated the cold opens, including Rudolph’s Harris, Andy Samberg as Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, and comedian Jim Gaffigan as Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz.

Like Trump, Musk was once a controversial host for Saturday evening live, holding court over the May 8, 2021 episode in which he falsely referred to himself as “the first person with Asperger’s” to host SNL.” (Original cast member and 2003 host Dan Aykroyd actually has that distinction.)

This week’s episode was hosted by comedian Bill Burr, along with Mk.gee, the first musical guest.

Watch the full cold snap above.

Saturday evening live airs Saturdays at 11:30 PM ET / 8:30 PM PT on NBC and Peacock.