Wednesday 17 August 2022 11:46 PM William Shatner pokes fun at billionaire 'supervillain' Elon Musk in scathing ... trends now
Star Trek star William Shatner sees Elon Musk as an eccentric supervillain who is part 'Thomas Edison, part Iron-Man, part annoying dude in the group chat.'
The comments were made during The Daily Show's latest DailyShowography, which examines Musk's life, from his childhood in South Africa to his failures with Tesla, outbursts on Twitter and everything in between - and Shatner is the show's narrator.
Musk, who has a net worth of roughly $271.2 billion, was not always a 'Technoking' – a title he gave with the Securities and Exchange Commission - but started his 'lifelong love of inventing things that already exist' at the young age of 12, Shatner said.
From there he took off like a speeding bullet, developing and selling off a 'start-up you've never heard of to a company that doesn't exist anymore,' Shatner says referring to Musk's bumpy beginnings.
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Elon Musk was the star of The Daily Show's DailyShowography that poked fun at the billionaire. The segment was narrated by William Shatner
Shatner begins by criticizing Musk about refusing to stay in his lane – the CEO is known for sharing his opinions on a range of topics – and says this action is 'much like a Tesla on auto-pilot.'
A clip plays Musk hyping up Tesla in its early beginnings – promising the dream of full self-driving technology.
The vision started in 2014 when the CEO said: 'I'm confident that in less than a year, you'll be able to go from highway on-ramp to highway exit without touching any control.'
But the next clip was of a YouTuber testing a Tesla, noting that the car just ran a red light.
Shatner says Musk is part Thomas Edison (left) and part Iron Man (right)
The Showography pulls up another Tesla mishap in 2015, when Musk said drivers could sleep in the car as it drove you to a destination – but the same YouTuber almost hit a telephone pole when he took his hands off the wheel.
There are several shots showing Tesla cars running over obstacles that it was meant to avoid, suggesting the technology was far from what Musk had promised.
'But Musk can't stop dreaming big, even when he should,' Shatner said with the sound of a smirk in his voice as the video showed Musk
