SNL says what we were all thinking in its billionaire Star Trek sketch
Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft lifts off from the launch pad on July 20th. | Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images Saturday Night Live returned this weekend and the show wasted no time taking aim at the weird billionaire space tourism race that unfolded over the past few months. Guest host Owen Wilson played former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a sketch about a fictional new show called Star Trek: Ego Quest, about the voyages of the SS New Shepard and its crew of random weirdos," whose mission is to just sort of fly around space goofing off in a ship that looks like a penis," according to the voiceover.
You'll recall the real Bezos traveled to the edge of space in Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket in July, along with a crew that included his brother Mark (played in the sketch by Wilson's brother Luke), 82-year-old pilot and space legend Wally Funk, and...