Chloe Fineman has confirmed that Elon Musk is the Saturday Night Live host who made her cry when he hosted the show in May 2021.
Rumors about an SNL guest host making a cast member cry were first spread by star Bowen Yang, who wouldn’t reveal the details when he told Andy Choen in September.
Fineman, who has been in the cast since 2019, singled out Musk as the host who brought her to tears after seeing the Tesla CEO and one of Donald Trump’s top advisors complain about Dana Carvey’s impression of him on last week’s show.
“Okay, I just saw a news article about Elon Musk making a fuss about SNL and his impression,” she said in a TikTok.
“And I’m like, you know what? I’m finally going to come out and say I’m the cast member he made cry. And he’s the host who made someone cry.”
Chloe Fineman has confirmed that Elon Musk is the Saturday Night Live host who made her cry when he hosted the show in May 2021
Fineman, who has been in the cast since 2019, exposed Musk as the host who brought her to tears after seeing the Tesla CEO and one of Donald Trump’s top advisors complain about Dana Carvey’s impression of him on the show from last week.
Fineman said Musk had been brutally honest about her work during a late-night writing session.
“You made me, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up late writing a sketch, I was so excited, I walked in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and said, ‘It’s not funny.'”
The sketch in question appears to be The Ooli Showin which Musk plays a producer who interrupts an Icelandic talk show.
She said Musk “started flipping through my script, like he was turning every page, [and] like, “I didn’t laugh once, not once.”
The Megalopolis star noted that the sketch turned out to be the best and she thought Musk was good at it, but had to intervene after the ‘chief idiot’ complained about Carvey’s impression.
She said, “The skit turned out, and it was fine, and I really had a good time and I thought you were really funny in it. But you know. Have some manners here, sir!’
Musk was critical of Saturday Night Live’s portrayal of him through Dana Carvey in NBC’s first episode since Donald Trump’s election victory.
The Tesla & X CEO, 53, fired off a series of tweets on his platform
The sketch in question turns out to be The Ooli Show, in which Musk plays a producer who interrupts an Icelandic talk show
“SNL has been slowly dying for years as they become increasingly out of touch with reality,” said the Pretoria, South Africa-born mogul, who hosted the May 8, 2021 episode.
He added: “Their last-ditch effort to bypass equal airtime requirements and support Kamala before the election has only sunk her campaign further.”
The opening segment featured Carvey, a cast member of the series from 1986-1993, in an all-black ensemble, similar to the one Musk has been seen in lately.
Carvey said, imitating Musk, “Look – dark MAGA – but seriously, I run the country now.
“America will be like one of my rockets: you know, they’re super cool and super fun, but there’s a small chance it will blow up and everyone will die.
The CEO of SpaceX said of the comic’s performance: “Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.”
Musk added of SNL, “They’re so mad that @realDonaldTrump won,” and also agreed with a user’s suggestion that the show’s opening clip had a bigger platform through his social media site, unlike the broadcast one. and streaming services from NBC.
The eccentric billionaire appeared on Saturday Night Live a few years ago, poking fun at his own eccentricities and appearing to reveal in his opening monologue that he has “Asperger’s,” and the price of his favorite cryptocurrency Dogecoin plummeted after joking that he would buy some for his mother for Mother’s Day.
Elon Musk, 53, was critical of Saturday Night Live’s portrayal of him through Dana Carvey, 69, in NBC’s first episode since Donald Trump’s election victory. Pictured on October 16 in Pennsylvania, campaigning for Trump
The opening segment featured Carvey, a cast member of the series from 1986-1993, in an all-black ensemble, similar to the one Musk has been seen in lately.
While the highly anticipated episode aired, many users complained that the streaming options on the NBC app crashed, presumably due to high user volume.
Notably, SNL cast member Aidy Bryant didn’t appear alongside Musk in any sketches after appearing to explore his fortunes in an Instagram story. After appearing in the Mother’s Day Cold Open, which did not feature Musk, Bryant did not appear in the rest of the show.
In his monologue, Musk himself did not mention the joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin by name, causing the price of the volatile asset to plummet dramatically as he spoke.
His mother Maye, who made a guest appearance for Mother’s Day, did say she hoped his gift wouldn’t be Dogecoin, to which he replied, “It is!”
“I’m making history tonight as the first person with Asperger’s to host SNL. Or at least the first to admit it. So I won’t be making much eye contact with the cast tonight,” Musk said in his monologue.