Bowen Yang walked back into Studio 8H on Saturday night and stole the cold open.
The former cast member made a surprise return to Saturday Night Live, his first appearance since leaving the show in December 2025, to play former Nvidia chief Jensen Huang. Host John Mulaney played a CIA official who had summoned five of the country’s most powerful tech executives for a briefing on national security.
The joke landed on a real scandal. Huang resigned from Nvidia this week after reports of an extramarital affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, NBC reported. Mulaney’s agent told the room of billionaires that America needed them to learn the difference between a woman who would actually want to be with them and a woman who was clearly a spy.
The lineup around the table included Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Peter Thiel, played by Jeremy Culhane, Andrew Dismukes, Ben Marshall, Jane Wickline and James Austin Johnson. Yang arrived near the end in Huang’s trademark leather jacket, introducing himself as “Jensen ‘Hide Your Wife’ Huang” and joking that when he visits, the S&P 500 goes down.
The sketch also slipped in the week’s other big stories, namechecking the FAA’s nationwide ground stop and the Microsoft Outlook outage. It was a rare cold open with no parody of President Trump. Mulaney hosted for the seventh time, with Phoebe Bridgers as musical guest.
Source: NBC
