Elon Musk Reacts to ‘SNL’ Star’s Claim He Made Her Cry

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has responded to Saturday Night time Stay’s (SNL) Chloe Fineman’s accusations of constructing 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.

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 Stay final August.

As reported by Buzzfeed, when requested by WWHL host Andy Cohen what Yang thought of to be “the worst SNL host habits” he witnessed, the Bros star answered, “This man, this particular person, 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.

“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.

Issues kicked up between Musk, Fineman, and all the 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 the US. The episode’s host, Dana Carvey, portrayed Musk whereas sporting a “darkish MAGA hat” just like the one Musk wore at a latest Trump rally, whereas leaping round in pleasure concerning the President-Elect.

The next day, as FOX News stories, Musk posted on Twitter that “’SNL’ has been dying slowly for years, as they turn out to be more and more out of contact with actuality,” and added, “they’re so mad that [Donald Trump] gained.”

In a now-deleted TikTok, Fineman addressed Yang’s feedback and confirmed the identification 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 said. “I used to be so excited, I got here in, I requested if you happen to 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 critical about his opinion.

“I waited so that you can be like, ‘Haha, JK.’ No,” Fineman continued, “Then you definitely began pawing by way of my script, flipping every web page, being like, ‘I did not snort as soon as. Not one time.’”

Taking to X on Thursday, Musk neither confirmed nor denied that he induced Fineman to cry however discovered her response to his alleged dismissal of her jokes “humorous.”

“She’s knowledgeable comedy author who cries when somebody doesn’t assume her jokes are humorous,” he wrote to 1 X person, as famous by Deadline. “That’s humorous. Significantly.”

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 fearful. 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 keeping with Musk, nevertheless, all of it seemingly “labored out in the long run.”

Although neither Musk nor Fineman shared the precise sketch that induced their points, it wasn’t troublesome 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.