Elon Musk has responded to the declare he made comedian Chloe Fineman cry when he hosted Saturday Night time Live.
The SNL superstar claimed in a TikTok video on Monday that the Tesla boss made her “burst into tears” when he hosted the sketch point out in Might well maybe well additionally simply 2021 on yarn of he used to be “rude” and declared her script used to be “not funny” after she’d labored all night time on it.
Musk responded to her allegations on his social media platform X, insisting he used to be simply “worried” about his sketches bombing.
“Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs. I was worried,” he wrote. “I was like damn my SNL appearance is going to be so f**king unfunny that it will make a c**ckhead sober!! But then it worked out in the end (sigh emoji).”
In her video, which has since been deleted, Fineman alleged, “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 (joke).’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being, like, ‘I didn’t laugh once, not one time.'”
The 36-12 months-old-fashioned added that their sketch made it to air and she “actually had a really good time”.
Whereas she didn’t uncover the name of the sketch, followers salvage been speculating that it used to be The Ooli Display camouflage, where she performed an Icelandic TV presenter alongside Musk as her producer.
Fineman’s video comes months after fellow SNL superstar Bowen Yang cryptically revealed on See What Happens Live that an unnamed male customer host “made multiple cast members cry” on yarn of “he hated the ideas”.