Elon Musk from SpaceX is hosting Saturday Night Live at the end of the week.

Elon Musk is getting ready to take a chance in comedy.

The owner of SpaceX is hosting "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, with a show featuring Miley Cyrus as a musical guest.

Musk looks kind of excited about the show. He recently asked his approximately 53 million Twitter followers for sketching ideas and launched some of his own.

“Irony Man — defeat villains using the power of irony,” Musk tweeted on May 1st. (Actor Robert Downey Jr. has said he drew inspiration from Musk in shaping his portrayal of Tony Stark in the "Iron Man" films, and the billionaire entrepreneur has a cameo in "Iron Man 2.") "Baby Shark & Shark Tank merge to form Baby Shark Tank," Musk wrote in another tweet.

These concepts may not make it into the show. But we should expect some space-related sketches — something playing off Musk's long-held dream of Mars colonization, perhaps, or SpaceX's upcoming launch of four private citizens to orbit on the Inspiration4 mission.

The look of SNL comes in the middle of a good enough runtime for SpaceX. On April 23, the company launched its second contracted crewed mission to the International Space Station for NASA, and the astronauts who flew on SpaceX's first operational flight to the orbiting lab came down to Earth on May 2.

And just yesterday (May 5), a prototype of the Mars rocket of the SpaceX spaceship conducted a high-altitude test flight for the first time. The shiny silver car, known as the SN15 ("Serial number. 15"), flew 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) through the skies of southern Texas and descended for a gentle landing - something his four immediate predecessors had failed to accomplish. (One of these earlier vehicles, SN10, landed in one piece, but blew up several minutes later.)

Musk has been involved with comedy for a long time. For example, he would have wanted to buy The Onion, one of the oldest and most venerated satirical stores on the Internet. He also helped finance a rival comedy website called Thud which was run by Onion alums but eventually withdrew from the project.

Musk now seems to have bitten the onion, which has put the billionaire into his satirical viewfinder several times. After a recent Onion slide show joked that South Africa-born Musk had earned his fortune through apartheid, Musk tweeted, "Shame on you, Onion. This is why people are looking for @TheBabylonBee!”

Elon Musk's “Saturday Night Live” will be broadcast on NBC on May 8 at 11:30 pm. EDT.