After Dana Carvey debuted his new Elon Musk impression on this past weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, the X owner had some choice words for the series, claiming that the sketch comedy show has been “dying slowly for years.” This prompted SNL star Chloe Fineman to fire some shots yesterday in a now-deleted TikTok video that backed up reports from earlier this year that Musk made people cry when he hosted in 2021. One of the people he brought to tears, Fineman admitted, was herself.
“I’m gonna come out and say at long last that I’m the cast member he made cry,” Fineman said in her TikTok video (seen below). This backs up fellow SNL co-star Bowen Yang’s comments he made back in August during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. At the time, Yang didn’t name names, but 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.
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“If you’re gonna go on your platform and be rude, guess what?” Fineman continued, “You made I, Chole Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the 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 ‘ha ha JK no,’ then you started pawing through my script, flipping each page being like ‘I didn’t laugh. I didn’t laugh once. Not one time.’ Cut to: the sketch made it on, and it was fine, and I actually had a really good time and I thought you were funny in it, but you know, have a little manners here, sir!”
Elon Musk Responds to Chloe Fineman
After Fineman’s video was shared on X by Chris Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter, Musk replied like the egotistical whiner he is, claiming, “it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs. I was worried.” What was he worried about? “My SNL appearance is going to be so f**king unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober,” he added. Musk brought his own ideas to the table for his SNL hosting gig, which included pretending to pull his junk out to the audience to prove his manhood, only to display a baby rooster instead. Yeah, hilarious. Thankfully, the skit was rejected.
The war of words between Musk and SNL comes just a week after Donald Trump was elected the 47th President of the United States, which the Tesla CEO championed throughout his campaign. Trump has been the butt of many jokes on SNL over the years, and has fired back in numerous tantrums, and now it appears as if Musk is following the same playbook. It makes sense since the two are cut from the same cloth and have now gotten into bed with one another, a fact that SNL is sure to exploit in the coming weeks. To that we say bring on the madness, because really, in this Orwellian future we now find ourselves in, laughter is the only medicine we have left to help keep our sanity.
The longest-running sketch-comedy/satire show on television, premiering in 1975, Saturday Night Live is a weekly series that features new hosts for each episode, with a core cast of actors and comedians that rotate over time. Episodes feature several skits that are sometimes ad-libbed on the fly, with the hosts engaging in most of them, and also provide musical guest performances that cap off each night.
- Release Date
- October 11, 1975
- Cast
- Leslie Jones , Aidy Bryant , Kyle Mooney , Alex Moffat , Kate McKinnon , Beck Bennett , Kenan Thompson , Colin Jost , Mikey Day , Cecily Strong , Michael Che , Pete Davidson , Melissa Villaseñor
- Seasons
- 48