Steve Carell as Jeff Bezos Insists He's Not Trolling Trump on SNL
This week, Amazon announced the location of its second headquarters, which turned out to be two new headquarters and which ended up exactly where anyone would have guessed they would without Jeff Bezos getting the whole country to praise him like a demigod: New York and D.C. (Northern Virginia, technically speaking). And as a bald capped, smiling, creepily cheery-sounding Steve Carell says, "everyone, except for the people who live there and the people who live in all the places we didn't choose, is thrilled."
There's a lot to be said about the whole production that Amazon made the country go through just to eke out even more tax breaks, but Carrell's Bezos wants to dispel some other rumors: that it's all about Donald Trump.
Some folks have speculated that I'm somehow trolling President Trump by building one headquarters in his hometown of Queens and the other in his current residence of Washington, D.C., thereby "overshadowing" or "humiliating" him. But that's simply not true. Sure, he attacked me repeatedly on Twitter, but I chose our new locations because they were ideal for growing business, not just to make Donald Trump think about how I'm literally 100 times richer than he is. We needed access to a young, educated workforce, which is why we set up a satellite office in Palm Beach, Florida, across the street from Mar-a-Lago.
Whoever did set design for this deserves praise for slipping in an unremarked-on poster of Nintendo's Toad in the background. And Carell delivers one of the shadiest lines of his career, about The Art of the Deal: "That costs more to ship, because it's heavier. I guess it's the only book with four Chapter Elevens."
