Chloe Fineman has put Elon Musk on blast — saying he made her “burst into tears” when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” in May 2021.
The comedian, 36, took aim at the Tesla founder, 53, following his scathing comments about the iconic show being a “dying” art.
“I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being butt hurt about ‘SNL’ and his impression,” Fineman said in a now-deleted TikTok video shared Monday. “But I’m like, ‘You’re clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about?’”
Fineman then went on to call out the SpaceX CEO, saying he was the anonymous celebrity host that her co-star Bowen Yang previously accused of making “multiple cast members cry” because “he hated the ideas.”
“And I’m like, you know what? I’m gonna 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,” she went on.
“But I’m like, no, if you’re gonna go on your platform and be rude, like, guess what? You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch.”
Admitting she was “so excited” to show him the sketch she had been working on, Musk “stared” at her in return.
“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, ‘Ha ha, joke.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being, like, ‘I didn’t laugh once, not one time,’” she recalled.
Fineman’s sketch ultimately made it to the show, and Fineman even praised Musk’s “funny” performance in it.
“But, you know, have a little manners here, sir,” she added.
It comes just days after the X owner slammed Dana Carvey following the comedian’s impression of him on “SNL.”
During the opening skit, the cast members cheekily showed allegiance to President-elect Donald Trump following his historic victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Carvey — who previously played President Joe Biden — made an unexpected appearance as Musk, who backed Trump, 78, in the race.
“SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality,” Musk wrote on X in response to the sketch.
“Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further,” the billionaire added, referring to the FCC commissioner blasting Harris, 60, for allegedly breaking the Equal Time rule after her appearance on the show last week.
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