- Elon Musk hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2021.
- The “SNL” comedian Chloe Fineman said Musk made her cry and criticized her work.
- Fineman said she named Musk because he was “rude” about the postelection “SNL” episode.
Chloe Fineman, a comedian on “Saturday Night Live,” said Elon Musk made her cry when he hosted the show in 2021.
In a since-deleted TikTok posted on Monday, Fineman said she’d stayed quiet for three years, but Musk’s “rude” response to the postelection episode of “SNL” prompted her to come forward about her experience of working with him.
During the postelection show, which aired Saturday, the comedian Dana Carvey did an impression of Musk.
Referring to Musk’s support for Donald Trump, he joked: “Seriously, I run the country now. America’s going to be like one of my rockets, you know, that’s super cool and super fun, but there’s a slight chance it could blow up and everybody dies!”
On Sunday, Musk reacted to the clip on X, writing, “SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality.”
In August, Bowen Yang told “Watch What Happens Live” that a guest host made “Saturday Night Live” members cry during a pitch meeting.
He said: “This man who … this person, this host, made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday during the, before the table-read because he hated the ideas.”
On Monday, Fineman said in the TikTok: “I’m going to come out and say that I’m the cast member that he made cry. He’s the host that made someone cry. I saw some articles and stuff, and I was like, ‘I’m not going to say anything.’ But I’m like, ‘No.’ If you’re going to go on your platform and be rude, like, guess what? You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch.”
She added: “I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, ‘It’s not funny.’ I waited for you to be like, ‘Ha ha, jk.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being like, ‘I didn’t laugh once, not one time.'”
Fineman said the sketch stayed in the episode. “I thought you were really funny in it,” she said. “But, you know, have a little manners here, sir.”
Fineman didn’t clarify which sketch she was referring to, but she’s credited as a writer on “The Ooli Show,” in which Musk plays the producer of a talk show hosted by Fineman’s character.
On Tuesday, Musk wrote in reply to a post featuring Fineman’s video: “Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs.
“I was worried. I was like damn my SNL appearance is going to be so fucking unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober!! But then it worked out in the end.”
Representatives for Musk and Fineman didn’t respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
