Chloe Fineman has confirmed that Elon Musk was the Saturday Night Live host who made her ‘break down in tears’ when he hosted the show in May 2021.
Rumors that a guest SNL emcee made a cast member cry first spread after the star Bowen Yang told Andy Cohen in September, although Yang didn’t give out all the details.
Fineman singled out Musk as the host who made her cry after the Tesla CEO became enraged over Dana Carvey’s impression of him on the post-election show.
“Okay, I just saw a news article about Elon Musk being hurt by SNL and its impression,” he said in a TikTok.
‘And I say, you know what? I’m going to come out and finally say that 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 on the cast since 2019, called out Musk as the host who made her cry after watching the Tesla CEO and one of Donald Trump’s key advisers complain about Dana Carvey’s impression of him on the show. program from last week.
Fineman said Musk had been brutally honest about his 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 that I walked in, asked if you had any questions, and you looked at me like you were saying goodbye to Tesla and said, “Isn’t that funny?” “.
The sketch in question appears to be The Ooli Showwhere Musk plays a producer who interrupts an Icelandic talk show.
She said Musk “started flipping through my script, like turning every page, (and) saying, ‘I didn’t laugh once.'”
The Megapolis star noted that the sketch turned out for the best and thought Musk was good in it, but had to intervene after the ‘boss jerk’ complained about Carvey’s impression.
She said: “The sketch came out well and it was good, and I actually had a great time with it and I thought you were very funny.” But you know. Have some manners here, sir!
Musk criticized Saturday Night Live’s portrayal of him by Dana Carvey in the NBC staple’s first episode since Donald Trump’s election victory.
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The sketch in question appears to be The Ooli Show, where Musk plays a producer who interrupts an Icelandic talk show.
“SNL has been slowly dying for years, as they become more and more out of touch with reality,” said the Pretoria, South Africa-born mogul, who hosted the show’s May 8, 2021 episode.
He added: “His latest effort to circumvent equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink his campaign further.”
In the opening segment, Carvey, a cast member of the series from 1986 to 1993, was dressed in an all-black ensemble similar to what Musk has been seen wearing lately.
Carvey said while 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 explode and everyone will die.
The SpaceX CEO said of the comic’s performance: “Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.”
Musk added of SNL: “They’re so angry that @realDonaldTrump won” and also agreed with a user’s suggestion that the show’s opening clip had a larger platform through his social media site compared to the NBC streaming and streaming services.
The eccentric billionaire appeared on Saturday Night Live a few years ago, poking fun at his own eccentricities and appearing to reveal that he has ‘Asperger’s’ in his opening monologue, and driving down the price of his favorite cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, after joking that he would buy it. some for your mom for Mother’s Day.
Elon Musk, 53, criticized Saturday Night Live’s portrayal of him by Dana Carvey, 69, in the NBC staple’s first episode since Donald Trump’s election victory. Photographed on October 16 in Pennsylvania during Trump’s election campaign.
In the opening segment, Carvey, a cast member of the series from 1986 to 1993, was dressed in an all-black ensemble similar to what Musk has been seen wearing lately.
While the highly anticipated episode was airing, many users complained that the streaming options on the NBC app were crashing, presumably due to high user volume.
Notably, SNL cast member Aidy Bryant did not appear in any sketches alongside Musk, after appearing to investigate his fortune in an Instagram Story. After appearing at the Mother’s Day cold open, which did not feature Musk, Bryant did not appear in the rest of the program.
In his monologue, Musk himself did not mention the joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin by name, causing the price of the volatile asset to drop dramatically as he spoke.
His mother Maye, who appeared as a guest for Mother’s Day, said she hoped her gift wasn’t Dogecoin, to which he responded, “It is!”
“In fact, tonight I will make history 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.