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By Billie Schwab Dunn
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Elon Musk has taken to social media to respond to Chloe Fineman's claim in a now-deleted TikTok post that he made her cry when he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2021.
In the video, which was shared to X (formerly Twitter) by a senior staff writer at The Hollywood Reporter after it was deleted, Fineman said Musk did not like a sketch she presented to him after working on it all night.
"You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up late 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.' I waited for you to be like, 'Haha, JK [just kidding]'—no." she said. Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Fineman and Musk for comment on Tuesday outside of normal business hours.
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Now Musk has revealed why he was so critical of the SNL cast member, writing on X: "Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs.
"I was like damn my SNL appearance is going to be so f****** unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober!!
"But then it worked out in the end," Musk added.
Fineman didn't stop there in her video, as she went into further detail about what happened behind the scenes before the skit she wrote made it to air.
"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 said.
"Cut to, the sketch made it on, and then it was, like, fine and I actually had a really good time and I thought you were really funny in it but, you know, have a little manners, sir."
Fineman was prompted to publish the video after news articles stated Musk was unimpressed with an impression of him on Saturday when the show returned days after Donald Trump won the U.S. election.
During the episode, SNL cast members pretended they supported the president-elect to avoid being put on his "enemies list." Former regular cast member Dana Carvey was also introduced as Musk, wearing a black MAGA hat and mocking the Tesla CEO's appearance at one of Trump's rallies before the election.
Following the episode, Musk criticized Carvey and the sketch comedy show on X, saying the cast was "mad that @realDonaldTrump won" and slamming Carvey's impression, writing that "Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey."
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Fineman wasn't impressed with Musk's response, as she said in her video: "OK, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being, like, butthurt about SNL and his impression but I'm, like, you're clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about?
"And I'm, like, you know what, I'm going to come out and say at long last that I'm the cast member that he made cry and he's the host that made someone cry. Maybe there's others but I saw some articles and stuff and I was, like, I'm not going to say anything. But I'm, like, no, if you're going to go on your platform and be rude."
The rumor mill started in August when Fineman's SNL co-star, Bowen Yang, stated on Watch What Happens Live that a male host had made "multiple cast members cry" during a table-read for the sketch comedy series because he "hated the ideas."
"This man who … this person, this host made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday during the, before the table-read, because he hated the ideas," Yang said when asked about the worst behavior he has experienced from an SNL host.
Update 11/12/24, 04:43 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include further context and information.
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