SNL’s Beck Bennett: Trump, Elon, Putin, SNL50, and ‘Fixed’

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Over the course of eight years in the cast of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Beck Bennett performed comedy with more than 150 celebrity hosts. But no one—not even Donald Trump himself—was as difficult to work with as Elon Musk. In the 300th episode of The Last Laugh, Bennett looks back on his SNL audition, discusses what it was like to join the show with one of his oldest friends Kyle Mooney (with whom he just launched his own new podcast), and reveals exactly what made Musk a more “offensive” collaborator than Trump. He explains how he knows Vladimir Putin liked his shirtless impression a lot more than Trump liked Alec Baldwin’s portrayal, how he knew it was finally time to leave the show, and how Lorne Michaels nearly talked him into staying. Finally, Bennett talks about the two very different movies he appears in this summer: voicing a cartoon dog in the raunchy Netflix movie ‘Fixed’ and joining the DC cinematic universe as The Daily Planet’s Steve Lombard in ‘Superman.’ Follow Beck Bennett on Instagram @beckbennett Follow Matt Wilstein on Bluesky @mattwilstein Follow The Last Laugh on Instagram @lastlaughpod Highlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Before we get into today's show, I want to take a quick moment to celebrate that this is the 300th episode of The Last Laugh.
0:09.0	We started this podcast in March of 2019 and have had so many incredibly funny people come through over the past six and a half years.
0:18.6	So I want to sincerely thank everyone who has been listening. It really
0:22.6	just means the world to me, and I'm so grateful that I get to keep sharing these conversations
0:27.0	with you. All right. Now, on to the show. This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from
0:35.7	The Daily Beast, and joining me today on the show
0:38.5	is everyone's favorite SNL cast member. You can currently hear his voice in the Netflix animated
0:44.9	movie fixed and see him in theaters in the new Superman movie. Beck Bennett, welcome to The Last
0:50.9	Laugh. Thank you so much. That's a wonderful intro.
0:55.5	It's great to be here.
1:01.6	Yeah, we recently found out how beloved you were by your fellow S&L cast members. For anyone who doesn't know, Sarah Sherman was on another podcast, good one, talking about how when she got to the show, all anyone could talk about was,
1:10.9	ugh, I wish Beck was still here.
1:13.1	He was the best.
1:14.2	Yeah, that I could not believe that clip.
1:17.9	It was like, I talked to my friends about it.
1:21.7	And it's like, that's like the dream that like you find out somebody comes on and it's like,
1:26.5	hey, we all talk about how we like this person.
1:28.8	He's great.
1:29.8	Everybody misses him.
1:31.8	And it was, I was having, I was kind of having a dumpy day.
1:35.8	And my wife sent it to me.
1:38.5	It was like, you need to watch this.
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