Bowen Yang made a surprise return to “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday stepping back into Studio 8H to portray disgraced former Nvidia executive Jensen Huang during the show’s cold open.
CIA Briefing for Tech Leaders
The sketch featured host John Mulaney as a CIA official who summoned several prominent tech figures to agency headquarters to address national security risks, specifically warning them about foreign espionage honeytraps following Huang’s resignation earlier in the week.
“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,” said John Mulaney, host.
When Johnson’s Thiel defensively asked Mulaney to name one time technology has let us down, Mulaney’s character answered, “Yesterday when every plane in America was grounded,” and when asked to name another time, cited “the day before that, when Microsoft Outlook went dark.” Trump was not featured in the sketch, making the cold open a rare one that did not parody the president.
The assembled tech moguls included Peter Thiel played by James Austin Johnson, Sam Altman played by Ben Marshall, Dario Amodei played by Jane Wickline, Mark Zuckerberg played by Andrew Dismukes, and Elon Musk played by Jeremy Culhane, according to Yahoo News New Zealand.
Jensen Huang’s Surprise Entrance
Mulaney then turned the session over to someone “who learned this lesson the hard way,” bringing out Yang in Huang’s trademark leather jacket to loud applause from the audience, as detailed by The Daily Beast.
“It’s me, Jensen ‘Hide Your Wife’ Huang,” said Bowen Yang, actor.
the nation’s most prominent tech billionaires gather over an issue of national security pic.twitter.com/IRnpToBRGo
Yang’s character proceeded to mock the financial fallout of the scandal, which coincided with Nvidia’s share price tumbling, according to Daily Mail. “Ladies, when you invite Jensen over, you know what’s about to go down: The S&P 500. That’s right, I’m into BDSM: Breaking Da Stock Market,” Yang said.
Yang departed the “Saturday Night Live” cast in December 2025 during an emotional farewell episode, making this his first appearance back on the program, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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