The highlighted portion of the screenshot is what we call an unsupported assertion. Also, it's wrong on its face. 
Elon Musk has never shown any discernible sense of humor. He appears to be actively challenged on irony, which is one of the key fulcrums for SNL sketch.
The idea that Musk's eccentricities only makes sense if those eccentricities are known at a sufficient specificity to be the object of comedy. I question this. Musk is famous, but he isn't particularly visible. People know his bio, not the person or persona directly.
Non actors and comedians can work well on SNL when their persona is visible and instantly recognizable. Is this the case with Musk? Michael Jordan being bucked up by Stuart Smalley works because MJ was the most famous/accomplished athlete in the world.
What is the comedic fulcrum for Musk? That's he's wealthy? That he has car and space companies? I don't see it. Good luck to the writers. I'm sure we'll get a spectacle, but I'm dubious about the results comedy-wise.
Now Musk fanboys are a pretty welcoming target, and Musk dissing them would create some potentially productive friction. It'd be like the William Shatner sketch where he goes after Star Trek fans. "Get a life!"
Maybe a sketch where Musk's space engineers try to talk him into going up on a launch and he makes endless excuses and we see that he thinks the thing is going to blow-up or something?
We'll get an Elon Musk interior monologue gag that will try to reveal what really goes on in the mind of a genius, I bet.
Musk is also famously thin-skinned. Good luck writing sketches that ask him to take himself down a peg.
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