In an unusual action for a ‘Saturday Night Live’ performer, Chloe Fineman is revealing allegations about one of the show’s prominent hosts — Elon Musk! — dismissed her sketch idea: “You looked at me as if you were terminating me from Tesla and said, ‘It’s not funny.’”
Two months ago, Bowen Yang ignited a Saturday Night Live mystery while appearing alongside Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. In a game of “Truth or Kink,” Cohen prompted Yang to disclose “without mentioning names” the most negative behavior of an SNL host he had observed throughout his time on the NBC sketch comedy series.
Yang specified but refrained from mentioning a name. “This person – I mean this host — caused many of the cast to cry on Wednesday before the table read, because he hated the ideas.’’ In the weeks that followed, fans and internet detectives have been engaging the comments sections cross adding who it may be. Some of the mystery was resolved on Tuesday.
Today, scribed Fineman declared that she was also one of those cast members, shortly after Musk lashed out at SNL over its portrayal of him and President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday.
“I mean OK, I Just saw some news article where Elon Musk was complaining about the SNL and how he was depicted in it, but then I was like, you are obviously watching the show, what’s the point?” she said in beginning of the clip. “And by the way, I’m gonna go ahead and feel so brave after all this time to say that castmember who cried, it’s me. And the host who made someone cry, that’s him.”
Fineman mentioned, for the record that she has read ‘some articles and stuff’ about the said matter with particular reference to the media backlash that erupted after Yang appeared on Watch What Happens Live with his Las Culturistas colleague Matt Rogers. “And 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? I, Chloe Fineman, shed tears while working tirelessly on a sketch as I was so excited to come in, I came in and asked if there were any questions and the response I got looked like I was being fired from Tesla and all I heard was ‘It’s not funny.”
Fineman went on: “I expected you to say, ‘Haha, just kidding.'” “No, then you began rummaging through my script, turning each page, and saying, ‘I didn’t laugh at all, not even once.'” Although there were no laughs, the sketch was featured on the Musk-led show, “and it was okay,” she mentioned. “I truly enjoyed myself and found you to be quite humorous in it.” However, you are aware. “Show some manners here … sir.”
While Fineman didn’t specify the title of the sketch, it has been noted that he was alluding to “The Oooli Show.” The skit features Musk portraying a glasses-wearing producer named Ragnarok who continually attempts to capture the attention of Ooli (Fineman), Iceland’s “top social media influencer” and the eccentric host of a pop culture TV program on Icelandic Public Television.
“Fineman uploaded the TikTok video clip on a Monday afternoon. It stayed on her page for few hours, but still, as of 6:20 PM PT, Fineman had taken it down. THR contacted Fineman and Musk’s representatives for further information, but it was Musk himself who responded to the situation late on Monday by replying to this reporter’s post on the platform X that he owns.
“To be honest, this was the very last Thursday before the Saturday when laughs from any of the sketches were received, and I was nervous,” said Musk. “I was like, sh*t, this is the most unfunny SNL anyone will ever watch that would even make a crackhead sober? But salvageable at the end it seems.” Musk subsequently shared a Youtube clip of his speech at the All-In Summit in September.
