Chloe Fineman Accuses Elon Musk of Reducing Her to Tears on ‘SNL’

Chloe Fineman has accused Elon Musk of having been a panic erstwhile helium hosted SNL.

Saturday Night Live‘s return for the sketch drama show’s 50 twelvemonth day comes astatine a pivotal, deeply depressing time.

SNL is a taste touchstone. It has seen galore highs and lows implicit the years.

One of the caller lows saw notorious billionaire Elon Musk hosting. According to Chloe Fineman, his hostility backstage brought her to tears.

Chloe Fineman attends the 2024 CFDA Awards astatine American Museum of Natural History connected October 28, 2024. (Photo Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

What did Chloe Fineman accidental astir Elon Musk? Nothing good

At slightest helium didn’t “offer” to buy her a horse.

Before Chloe Fineman said thing astir Elon Musk, her beloved castmate Bowen Yang dropped hints connected the topic.

In August, Bowen took a interruption from kissing each famously beautiful SNL host to look arsenic a impermanent connected Watch What Happens Live.

There, helium dished to Andy Cohen that 1 SNL guest had reduced 1 of his colleagues to tears backstage.

He didn’t sanction the perpetrator oregon the victim, leaving fans guessing. Many erroneously imagined immoderate celebrated diva pitching a fit.

On Monday, November 11, Chloe Fineman posted and deleted a TikTok video. There, she accused Elon Musk of causing her to outcry during his infamous 2021 SNL appearance.

Chloe Fineman attends the 2024 WWD Honors astatine Cipriani South Street connected October 29, 2024. (Photo Credit: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)

According to Chloe Fineman, Elon Musk crossed the line

In her posted-and-deleted TikTok video, Saturday Night Live prima Chloe Fineman explained that Elon Musk’s antagonistic absorption to Dana Carvey’s content of him prompted her to spell public.

The content came successful the aftermath of the dismal 2024 election. Elon Musk has been Donald Trump’s devoted cheerleader.

Musk has also, historically, shown a wide resentment to definite forms of parody towards him. Especially erstwhile it’s by idiosyncratic funnier than helium is. Which, unluckily for Musk, is astir everyone.

Chloe Fineman deleted the video aft it was up for a fewer hours. Luckily I saved it…in it she says Elon Musk did not similar her sketch: “You made I, Chloe Fineman burst into tears due to the fact that I stayed up precocious penning a sketch. I was truthful excited, I came in, I asked if you had any… https://t.co/y4BxNSab8j pic.twitter.com/p2RVHQMYuC

— Chris Gardner (@chrissgardner) November 12, 2024

Chloe Fineman recalled staying up each nighttime to constitute a drama sketch. She excitedly showed Elon Musk the script, but helium work done it without laughing and rejected the script.

According to Chloe, she “burst into tears” arsenic a result. She besides encouraged the purchaser of Tesla to “have a ltitle manners here, sir.”

Celebrity guests sometimes notoriously cull SNL jokes. John Mulaney famously describes conscionable 1 specified acquisition with Mick Jagger. However, sick manners are unbecoming connected conscionable astir everyone.

Elon Musk does a large lad leap connected signifier adjacent to disgraced erstwhile president Donald Trump during a run rally astatine tract of his archetypal assassination effort successful Butler, Pennsylvania connected October 5, 2024. (Photo Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Was the ‘SNL’ sketch truly not funny?

It is intolerable to cognize however comic oregon unfunny the sketch mightiness person been. Chloe Fineman did not furnish immoderate details.

One can’t truly justice by Elon Musk’s standards because, well, helium has a analyzable narration with humor. Musk desperately wants to beryllium funny, but isn’t. And his narration with other people’s jokes is beauteous infamous, too.

Interestingly, Musk threw his enactment down Donald Trump, a antheral who is unluckily extremely funny. Not connected purpose. Trump conscionable wants to beryllium liked, but is sometimes accidentally hilarious.

Apparently, Elon Musk didn’t deliberation that Saturday Night Live’s skit ideas were funny, and vetoed ideas until helium liked the skits. That really explains a lot. (Image Credit: Twitter)

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Elon Musk took to his Twitter relationship to respond to Chloe Fineman’s video. Though she had deleted her TikTok post, it had circulated connected societal media — including the tract that Musk purchased.

“It was lone connected the Thursday earlier the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs,” Musk complained. “I was worried. I was similar damn my SNL quality is going to beryllium truthful f–king unfunny that it volition marque a crackhead sober!!”

Replies, which travel chiefly from radical who are some inactive utilizing Twitter successful precocious 2024 and who haven’t blocked Musk, were speedy to guarantee Musk that he’s precisely arsenic comic arsenic helium believes.