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“Saturday Night Live” mocked the billionaire space race in a new skit airing this weekend, with Owen Wilson playing Jeff Bezos aboard his Blue Origin spacecraft.
The skit, titled “Star Trek Billionaire,” follows Bezos and his crew who flew during the company’s inaugural space launch in July. The sketch is jokingly said to be part of the “Star Trek” franchise with a new series called “Stark Trek: Ego Quest”.
“The space is really awesome,” says Wilson, wearing the iconic Amazon founder cowboy hat.
A voiceover then goes into more detail about the billionaire’s “random weirdos”, which includes Bezos’ brother, a “rich kid from the Netherlands” and “82-year-old astronaut Wally Funk”.
Billionaire Richard Branson, played by cast member of “SNL” Alex Moffat then floats in his Virgin Galactic ship, before challenging Bezos to a race, which the voiceover calls “a midlife crisis of cosmic proportions” .
SpaceX founder Elon Musk, played by actor Mikey Day, also makes an appearance, firing torpedoes at Bezos’ ship. In real life, Bezos and Musk have an ongoing feud over a NASA lunar landing contract recently awarded to SpaceX.
“Space is only big enough for a weird white billionaire,” Day’s character says. “So you could say beating yourself is my ‘main’ goal,” he sneers.
The sketch also targets Bezos’ apparent contempt for his “valued” Amazon employees and the global absurdity of billionaires using space as a boundary to flex their wealth.
Watch the full clip above.
In other news, Elon Musk recently weighed in on Jeff Bezos’ lawsuit against NASA, saying, “You can’t go on your way to the moon.”
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