Elon Musk Responds to Making ‘SNL’s’ Chloe Fineman Cry: ‘I Was Worried’ My Hosting Would ‘Be So Unfunny It’ll Make a Crackhead Sober!!’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Elon Musk responded to Chloe Fineman‘s revelation that he made her cry during the week he hosted “Saturday Night Live” by doubling down on how much he worried that his episode would be unfunny.
Musk hosted “SNL” in May 2021. “Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs,” Musk wrote on X. “I was worried.
I was like damn my ‘SNL’ appearance is going to be so fucking unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober!! But then it worked out in the end.” Fineman came forward in a since-deleted TikTok video to reveal that she was the cast member who a host made cry once.
Back in August, “SNL” star Bowen Yang revealed publicly that a male host had once made “multiple cast members cry” during a table-read “because he hated the ideas” for sketches.
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