Elon Musk has responded to SNL star Chloe Fineman’s accusation that he made her “burst into tears” while hosting the show.
“You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing a 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,’” Fineman said in a video posted to TikTok Monday.
“I waited for you to be like, ‘Haha, JK.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, flipping each page, being like, ‘I didn’t laugh once. Not one time.’”
She later deleted the video.
“Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs. I was worried,” Musk wrote on X Tuesday. “I was like damn my SNL appearance is going to be so f---ing unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober!!”
He added, “But then it worked out in the end.” He did not specifically address Fineman’s allegations or apologize.
Fellow SNL cast member Bowen Yang revealed on Watch What Happens Live in August that an unnamed host made “multiple” people cry “before the table read because he hated the ideas.”
“He’s the host that made someone cry,” Fineman said of Musk. “Maybe there’s others.”
Musk hosted SNL in May 2021. Fineman said she chose to speak out after Musk slammed the show in a series of posts on X. In the show’s cold open on Saturday, Dana Carvey spoofed Musk by jumping around on stage with an exaggerated accent. Musk said Carvey “just sounds like Dana Carvey,” and that SNL has “been dying slowly for years.”
“I’m like, you’re clearly watching the show,” Fineman said in her video. “What are you talking about?”
She added that the sketch she wrote did up in the show, and that she thought Musk was “really funny” in it. “But have a little manners here,” she said.
