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Elon Musk has responded – as if he wouldn’t – to Saturday Night Live cast member Chloe Fineman outing the X owner and Trump supporter as the SNL guest host who made her cry.
Earlier this week, Fineman posted a since-deleted post on TikTok addressed to Musk saying, in part, “You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing this sketch. 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, ‘Haha, JK.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page being like, ‘I didn’t laugh, not one time.’”
In a response to a retweeted post on X, Musk wrote, “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.”
Musk has also taken the time to respond to other X commenters on the SNL situation. To “She’s a professional comedy writer who cries when someone doesn’t think her jokes are funny? That’s funny”, Musk wrote “Seriously.”
The weak-tea feud came to light after Musk expressed disapproval of Dana Carvey’s SNL impersonation of him, with Fineman writing on TikTok, “OK, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being like butt-hurt about SNL and his impression, but I’m like you’re clearly watching the show, like what are you talking about? And I’m like, you know what? I’m gonna come out and say at long last that I’m the cast member that he made cry. And he’s the host that made someone cry.”
Fineman went on to say, “And I was like I’m not gonna say anything, but I’m like, no, if you’re gonna go on your platform [X] and be rude, guess what? You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing this sketch. 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, ‘Haha, JK.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page being like, ‘I didn’t laugh, not one time.’”
The 2021 sketch turned out “fine,” Fineman wrote. “I actually had a really good time and I thought you were really funny in it, but have a little manners here, sir!”
