Bowen Yang Portrays Jensen Huang in John Mulaney SNL Cold Open

Former cast member Bowen Yang made a surprise return to Saturday Night Live on Saturday, portraying disgraced tech executive Jensen Huang during a sketch about female spies.

Host John Mulaney led a gathering of high-profile tech leaders at CIA headquarters to school them on recognizing espionage honeytraps, as reported by Rolling Stone. The cold open drew from the recent business scandal surrounding Huang, who resigned from Nvidia on November 12 after acknowledging a romantic relationship with a woman suspected of spying for China.

Mulaney told the group that America needed them to learn the difference between a woman genuinely interested in them and a spy trying to extract valuable information. He then asked the tech moguls what lesson could be learned from Huang’s downfall.

Anthropic chief Dario Amodei suggested never dating a Chinese woman, while Mark Zuckerberg answered, “Never date a human woman,” according to Rolling Stone. Peter Thiel offered that the lesson was to never date anyone lest they become the antichrist.

Cast members portray Silicon Valley figures

The sketch featured regular cast members playing prominent Silicon Valley figures, including James Austin Johnson as Peter Thiel, Andrew Dismukes as Mark Zuckerberg, Jane Wickline as Dario Amodei, Jeremy Culhane as Elon Musk, and Ben Marshall as Sam Altman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

When Mulaney used Venn diagrams to illustrate that “beautiful women” and the billionaires’ interests do not overlap, Musk went on a tangent about James Bond. Mulaney responded by squirting him with a water bottle.

Thiel defended the contributions of tech billionaires, asking Mulaney to name a time when technology had let the country down. Mulaney pointed to recent infrastructure disruptions, citing Friday’s nationwide flight ground stop and a global Microsoft Outlook outage that lasted nearly 24 hours, NBC News reported.

Jensen Huang’s surprise entrance

Mulaney then introduced a guest who had learned the lesson firsthand. Yang walked onto the stage as Huang, introducing himself as Jensen “Hide-Your-Wife” Huang.

Bowen Yang Jensen Huang SNL Nov 14 2026 — Photo: Variety

“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 the stock market. Fellas, don’t be like me. Remember, women don’t like guys like us. That’s how we became guys like us.”

said Bowen Yang, former cast member.

Yang departed the show in December 2025 and made his Broadway debut in September playing Mary Todd Lincoln in playwright Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!”. During the December 14 episode, Yang reprised that Broadway role in a later musical sketch.

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