Musk hosted the sketch comedy show in May 2021
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Chloe Fineman is recalling an alleged incident in which she says that Elon Musk made her cry.
In a now-deleted TikTok video Fineman, 36, a comedian on Saturday Night Live, accused the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO, 53, of making her cry when he hosted the long-running sketch comedy show in May 2021.
She began the Monday, Nov. 11, video by expressing that she wanted to speak out after seeing articles about Musk “being butt-hurt about SNL and his impression.”
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The entrepreneur recently addressed the show while replying to a post on X of Dana Carvey‘s impression of him following the 2024 presidential election.
“SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality. Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further. @nbcsnl,” wrote Musk.
Fineman, for her part, said on Monday: “I was like I’m not gonna say anything, but I’m like, no, if you’re gonna go on your platform [X] and be rude, guess what? You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing this sketch,” said Fineman.
“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, ‘Haha, JK.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page being like, ‘I didn’t laugh. I didn’t laugh once, not one time,’ ” she continued.
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While Fineman didn’t disclose what sketch she was referring to, she said it made it on the show and “it was fine.”
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“I actually had a really good time and I thought you were really funny in it, but, you know, have a little manners here, sir,” she added.
Her message comes three months after fellow SNL personality Bowen Yang revealed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen that a previous male host made “multiple cast members cry” because he ” hated the ideas” he was given.
