Tesla CEO Elon Musk has responded to Saturday Night time Reside’s (SNL) Chloe Fineman’s accusations of creating her cry within the author’s room.
Taking to X (fka Twitter) on Thursday, the 53-year-old controversial businessman defended himself from the comedienne’s latest TikTok, the place Finneman revealed that Musk was the one who verbally accosted her and different SNL writers, together with Bowen Yang, within the week main as much as Musk’s Might 2021 look.
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Elon Musk Induced Chloe Fineman To “Burst Into Tears” After Claiming Her ‘SNL’ Sketch Was Unfunny
The “no laughing” matter between Musk and Fineman was initially teased by fellow SNL alum Yang, when he appeared on an episode of Watch What Occurs Reside final August.
As reported by Buzzfeed, when requested by WWHL host Andy Cohen what Yang thought-about to be “the worst SNL host habits” he witnessed, the Bros star answered, “This man, this individual, this host made a number of solid members cry on [the] Wednesday earlier than the desk learn, as a result of he hated the concepts.”
Yang went into additional element concerning the Musk/Fineman incident in dialog with former SNL mainstays Dana Carvey and David Spade on their podcast, Fly on the Wall.
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“Think about you keep up till 4:00 a.m. writing a sketch, after which the host is like: ‘I f-cking hate this,’” Yang defined. “Your nerves are frayed. You are gonna have some bizarre, weird, emotional response.”
Although requested repeatedly, Yang didn’t reveal the names of the host or the author who cried on the time.
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Elon Musk Just lately Criticized Fineman And Her ‘SNL’ Co-Stars Over A Sketch Lampooning Donald Trump
Issues kicked up between Musk, Fineman, and the complete SNL solid this previous weekend. Within the present’s chilly open, Yang and different featured gamers “appealed” to Trump following his re-election as President of america. The episode’s host, Dana Carvey, portrayed Musk whereas carrying a “darkish MAGA hat” much like the one Musk wore at a latest Trump rally, whereas leaping round in pleasure concerning the President-Elect.
The next day, as FOX Information stories, Musk posted on Twitter that “’SNL’ has been dying slowly for years, as they develop into more and more out of contact with actuality,” and added, “they’re so mad that [Donald Trump] gained.”
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Elon Musk Was Revealed As The Host Who Made A number of ‘SNL’ Staffers “Burst Into Tears” By Chloe Fineman
In a now-deleted TikTok, Fineman addressed Yang’s feedback and confirmed the id of the host who made her and different SNL writers cry was Musk.
“You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears as a result of I stayed up all evening writing a sketch,” she acknowledged. “I used to be so excited, I got here in, I requested should you had any questions, and also you stared at me such as you have been firing me from Tesla and have been like, ‘It is not humorous.'”
Fineman claimed she then waited for the billionaire to inform her his response was a joke. To her dismay and disappointment, Musk was severe about his opinion.
“I waited so that you can be like, ‘Haha, JK.’ No,” Fineman continued, “You then began pawing by way of my script, flipping every web page, being like, ‘I did not chuckle as soon as. Not one time.’”
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Elon Musk Discovered It “Humorous” That His Opinion of Fineman’s “Unfunny” Jokes Made Her Cry
Frankly, it was solely on the Thursday earlier than the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs. I used to be anxious.
I used to be like rattling my SNL look goes to be so fucking unfunny that it’s going to make a crackhead sober!!
However then it labored out in the long run 😮💨…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2024
Taking to X on Thursday, Musk neither confirmed nor denied that he precipitated Fineman to cry however discovered her response to his alleged dismissal of her jokes “humorous.”
“She’s an expert comedy author who cries when somebody doesn’t suppose her jokes are humorous,” he wrote to 1 X person, as famous by Deadline. “That’s humorous. Severely.”
In separate tweets, Musk additional dove into his aspect of the story.
“Frankly, it was solely on the Thursday earlier than the Saturday that any of the sketches generated laughs,” he wrote. “I used to be anxious. I used to be like, rattling, my ‘SNL’ look goes to be so f-cking unfunny that it’s going to make a crackhead [look] sober!”
In response to Musk, nonetheless, all of it seemingly “labored out in the long run.”
The Sketch That Might Be The Root Of The Points Between ‘SNL,’ Chloe, And Elon
Although neither Musk nor Fineman shared the precise sketch that precipitated their points, it wasn’t tough to trace down.
Writers at Leisure Weekly famous that she, together with a number of different SNL writers, have been credited for the sketch, “The Ooli Present.” Musk seems within the skit as a stage supervisor who has a not-so-secret crush on Ooli, performed by Fineman. Former SNL solid member Kate McKinnon and present participant Mikey Day additionally seem within the sketch.
