“Saturday Evening Reside” star Chloe Fineman, recognized for her impressions of popular culture figures like Jennifer Coolidge, Britney Spears, and JoJo Siwa, opened up in a (now-deleted) TikTok about the truth that Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk made a bunch of forged members cry when he hosted the late-night establishment in 2021. (Suffice it to say, Musk didn’t make our rating of the ten finest “Saturday Evening Reside” visitor hosts.)
“OK, I simply noticed some information article about Elon Musk being like butt-hurt over ‘SNL’ and his impression, however I am such as you’re clearly watching the present, like what are you speaking about?” Fineman stated within the clip (by way of The Hollywood Reporter). “And I am like, you realize what? I am gonna come out and say in the end that I am the castmember that he made cry. And he is the host that made somebody cry.”
To make clear, the thriller surrounding the “host that made somebody cry” truly began a short time in the past because of Fineman’s fellow forged member Bowen Yang, who appeared on Bravo’s “Watch What Occurs Reside” together with his “Las Culturistas” cohost Matt Rogers in August 2024. “This man — this particular person — this host made a number of castmembers cry on Wednesday earlier than the desk learn as a result of he hated the concepts,” Yang instructed Cohen on the time throughout a sport referred to as “Fact or Kink.”
Apparently, Musk’s criticism of the newest “SNL” episode (extra on that shortly) riled Fineman up, and she or he felt emboldened to confront the difficulty. “And I used to be like, I am not gonna say something,” the actor continued. “However I am like, no, should you’re gonna go in your platform [X] and be impolite, guess what? You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears as a result of I stayed up late writing a sketch. I used to be so excited, I got here in, I requested should you had any questions and also you stared at me such as you have been firing me from Tesla and have been like, ‘It isn’t humorous.'” (For what it is value, Fineman did an impression of Musk on the phrase “humorous,” and it was fairly correct.)
Elon Musk hosted Saturday Evening Reside in 2021 — and regardless of what he says, it didn’t work out in the long run
Chloe Fineman’s now-gone TikTok additionally revealed that Elon Musk took his critique of her sketch actually far, going so far as to flip by way of the script to show to her that it stunk. “I waited so that you can be like, ‘Ha ha, [just kidding],'” Fineman continued. “No, then you definately began pawing by way of my script, like flipping every web page, being, like, ‘I did not snigger as soon as, not one time.'” With out naming the particular sketch, Fineman stated that it did run within the episode “and it was wonderful,” even complimenting Musk’s efficiency: “I truly had a extremely good time and I believed you have been actually humorous in it. However, you realize. Have a bit of manners right here … sir.”
Musk — who, like his new finest good friend Donald Trump, is terminally on-line and loves firing again at individuals about how he is perceived — posted on his platform X to reply to Fineman’s allegations. “Frankly, it was solely on the Thursday earlier than the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs,” he wrote within the put up. “I used to be frightened. I used to be like rattling my ‘SNL’ look goes to be so f***ing unfunny that it’ll make a crackhead sober!! However then it labored out in the long run.” Placing apart the analogy of one thing being so “unfunny” that it “will make a crackhead sober,” the reality is that, on this author’s estimation, Musk’s episode of “Saturday Evening Reside” is dangerous. The man is completely, stunningly devoid of charisma and comedic timing, and watching him bumble by way of sketches with a clownish grin on his face is a completely disagreeable expertise. Not less than somebody had the concept to decorate him in a Wario costume to make him appear to be an absolute software.
Elon Musk is mad at Saturday Evening Reside as a result of it mocked him in its post-election episode
The one cause Chloe Fineman is placing Elon Musk on blast about being an enormous jerk whereas he hosted “Saturday Evening Reside” is as a result of he commented on the latest episode — seemingly (positively) as a result of it made enjoyable of him. Within the first episode after the 2024 presidential election, through which former president and convicted felon Donald Trump received the race over Vice President Kamala Harris, the late-night present debuted its latest tackle Elon Musk — with veteran performer Dana Carvey poking enjoyable at Musk. (All through Trump’s marketing campaign, Elon Musk has spent a really inordinate period of time exhibiting up at rallies to leap up and down on the stage and present his stomach to everybody, which is what Carvey did earlier than James Austin Johnson’s “ripped Trump” emerged onto the stage.)
After the episode — hosted by Invoice Burr — aired, an X consumer posted a clip of Carvey’s Musk impression asking if anybody thought it was humorous. Naturally, Musk himself responded. “‘SNL’ has been dying slowly for years, as they turn into more and more out of contact with actuality,” the obvious humor knowledgeable declared earlier than reinvigorating the declare that NBC violated the “equal time provision” for presidential candidates by together with Vice President Harris within the chilly open one week prior. (Her look didn’t violate any precise guidelines, but the community gave business time to Trump because of this.)
“Saturday Evening Reside” airs Saturday nights at 11:30 P.M. EST, except Trump and Musk do one thing about that after the previous takes workplace in January 2025.
