Bezos, Musk, and Branson race for space in the new 'SNL' Star Trek series, 'Ego Quest'

"Their mission: To just sort of fly around space, goofing off, in a ship that looks like a penis."
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Bezos, Musk, and Branson race for space in the new 'SNL' Star Trek series, 'Ego Quest'
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Owen Wilson's funniest moment in the Season 47 premiere of Saturday Night Live, which he hosted, came with his first appearance as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The cowboy hat-wearing billionaire, slouched in the captain's chair of his very own Star Trek ship, says bro-ily to the camera: "Dude. Space is freakin' awesome."

Cue the dumb toothy grin.

In one of the premiere's standout sketches, SNL pitched a new Star Trek series, "Star Trek: Ego Quest". It's a show about three asshole billionaires — along with "Bezos," there's Virgin's Richard Branson (Alex Moffat) and Elon Musk (Mikey Day) — farting around in space for no particular reason. And yes, for Bezos specifically that happens in "a ship that looks like a penis."

Also, Luke Wilson is here too, as "Jeff Bezos' brother." He doesn't really do anything, but hey, another Wilson.

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Adam Rosenberg

Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.


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