8 of the most controversial hosts in 'Saturday Night Live' history

In April, it was announced Musk will host "SNL" on May 8. On April 24, he tweeted, "Let's find out just how live Saturday Night Live really is."

Cast member Bowen Yang shared the tweet in an Instagram story and added: "What the f--- does this even mean?"

Similarly, Andrew Dismukes, another cast member, shared his thoughts about the announcement on Instagram.

"Only CEO I wanna do sketch with is Cher-E Oteri," he wrote, referring to a former cast member on the show.

As Insider reported, the posts about Musk are no longer visible.

Musk, who is worth $170.9 billion according to Forbes, is a polarizing figure who has joked about gender pronouns in the past and even spread false information about the coronavirus pandemic.

When Donald Trump was a presidential candidate, he was tapped to host the show in 2015. During the show, he poked fun at his tweets and his wealth.

Meanwhile, around 200 people marched near 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, where the show is filmed, in protest of the event. Many protesters said the candidate's past racist and sexist remarks should prevent him from hosting a national TV show. It quickly became the most controversial episode in the series' history.

"At the end of the day, there is nothing funny about what Donald Trump has had to say about our communities," one protester told NBC News at the time.

His appearance gave the show a ratings boost.

In 2005, Armstrong announced he was retiring from cycling. In August that year, a French newspaper, L'Equipe, alleged he had used a banned substance in 1999.

In October 2005, a few months after the report, he hosted "Saturday Night Live," despite the doping reports.

During his opening monologue, he said, "The last time I did something too good, the French started testing my urine every 15 minutes."

Armstrong vehemently denied the doping claims. However, in 2013, he admitted to Oprah Winfrey in an interview that he was doping during each of his seven Tour de France wins.

Giuliani was once the highly regarded mayor of New York City, but he was controversial in some communities. Lumumba Bandele, a New Yorker and police reform advocate, told The Guardian in 2016 that Giuliani made "an environment of terror for communities of color." The publication also said Giuliani incited a police riot outside of City Hall in 1992 before becoming mayor, though he later said he was trying to calm the police who were protesting.

Despite being a controversial figure, Giuliani hosted the late-night sketch show in '97. He is also remembered as one of the worst hosts in the show's decades-spanning history because of his lack of comedic timing.

Still, that didn't stop him from being asked back: He returned in 2001 after 9/11 and in 2008.

Giuliani has since become an even more controversial public figure as former President Trump's lawyer.

When Lawrence took the stage during his opening monologue in 1994, he shocked America when he went off script and talked about feminine hygiene. The comedian was reportedly banned from the show after the backlash — the Los Angeles Times reported that NBC received 200 complaints about his remarks.

While appearing on "The Breakfast Club" in 2020, Lawrence was asked if he was still banned from the show.

"I don't give a damn," he said. "I'm not banned from 'SNL.' They banned me from NBC at the time for a minute. But then they realized the way it went down wasn't what they thought and then they sent me an apology letter."

Seagal hosted the late-night sketch show in 1991, and he has become known as the worst host in "SNL" history. In fact, there are no videos of the 1991 episode on NBC's site.

"He was too cool and he had his image," cast member David Spade told the "Literally!" podcast about Seagal in 2020. "He couldn't be relatable."

In the years since his appearance, he has become controversial for other reasons: In the wake of the #MeToo movement, he was accused of sexual assault and threatening behavior by multiple women. Seagal denied all claims against him, with a lawyer calling them "completely fictitious and totally made up." In 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office declined to bring charges relating to alleged incidents from 2002 and 1993, citing the statute of limitations.

While hosting the sketch show in 2003, Brody improvised his introduction of reggae musician Sean Paul. The actor put on a wig with dreadlocks and faked a Jamaican accent.

Creator and producer Lorne Michaels, who has a reputation for disliking ad-libs, reportedly did not welcome him back on the show.

Zappa pulled double duty in 1978, acting as "SNL's" host and musical guest. When he stepped onto the stage, he "made a show of purposefully breaking character," according to Entertainment Weekly, and told the audience he was reading from cue cards, a big no-no. Later in the show, he burst into laughter in the middle of the "Coneheads" sketch.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Zappa was not liked by the crew or cast members, and he was reportedly banned from the show as well.