Tesla CEO Elon Musk has responded to Saturday Night time Dwell’s (SNL) Chloe Fineman’s accusations of creating her cry within the author’s room.

Taking to X (fka Twitter) on Thursday, the 53-year-old controversial businessman defended himself from the comedienne’s latest TikTok, the place Finneman revealed that Musk was the one who verbally accosted her and different SNL writers, together with Bowen Yang, within the week main as much as Musk’s Could 2021 look.

The “no laughing” matter between Musk and Fineman was initially teased by fellow SNL alum Yang, when he appeared on an episode of Watch What Occurs Dwell final August.

As reported by Buzzfeed, when requested by WWHL host Andy Cohen what Yang thought-about to be “the worst SNL host conduct” he witnessed, the Bros star answered, “This man, this particular person, this host made a number of forged members cry on [the] Wednesday earlier than the desk learn, as a result of he hated the concepts.”

Yang went into additional element in regards to the Musk/Fineman incident in dialog with former SNL mainstays Dana Carvey and David Spade on their podcast, Fly on the Wall.

“Think about you keep up till 4:00 a.m. writing a sketch, after which the host is like: ‘I f-cking hate this,’” Yang defined. “Your nerves are frayed. You are gonna have some bizarre, weird, emotional response.”

Although requested repeatedly, Yang didn’t reveal the names of the host or the author who cried on the time.

Issues kicked up between Musk, Fineman, and the whole SNL forged this previous weekend. Within the present’s chilly open, Yang and different featured gamers “appealed” to Trump following his re-election as President of america. The episode’s host, Dana Carvey, portrayed Musk whereas carrying a “darkish MAGA hat” just like the one Musk wore at a latest Trump rally, whereas leaping round in pleasure in regards to the President-Elect.

The next day, as FOX Information studies, Musk posted on Twitter that “’SNL’ has been dying slowly for years, as they grow to be more and more out of contact with actuality,” and added, “they’re so mad that [Donald Trump] gained.”

In a now-deleted TikTok, Fineman addressed Yang’s feedback and confirmed the identification of the host who made her and different SNL writers cry was Musk.

“You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears as a result of I stayed up all evening writing a sketch,” she acknowledged. “I used to be so excited, I got here in, I requested for those who had any questions, and also you stared at me such as you had been firing me from Tesla and had been like, ‘It isn’t humorous.’”

Fineman claimed she then waited for the billionaire to inform her his response was a joke. To her dismay and disappointment, Musk was severe about his opinion.

“I waited so that you can be like, ‘Haha, JK.’ No,” Fineman continued, “Then you definately began pawing by way of my script, flipping every web page, being like, ‘I did not snort as soon as. Not one time.’”

Taking to X on Thursday, Musk neither confirmed nor denied that he brought about Fineman to cry however discovered her response to his alleged dismissal of her jokes “humorous.”

“She’s an expert comedy author who cries when somebody doesn’t assume her jokes are humorous,” he wrote to at least one X consumer, as famous by Deadline. “That’s humorous. Significantly.”

In separate tweets, Musk additional dove into his aspect of the story.

“Frankly, it was solely on the Thursday earlier than the Saturday that any of the sketches generated laughs,” he wrote. “I used to be apprehensive. I used to be like, rattling, my ‘SNL’ look goes to be so f-cking unfunny that it’s going to make a crackhead [look] sober!”

In response to Musk, nevertheless, all of it seemingly “labored out ultimately.”

Although neither Musk nor Fineman shared the precise sketch that brought about their points, it wasn’t troublesome to trace down.

Writers at Leisure Weekly famous that she, together with a number of different SNL writers, had been credited for the sketch, “The Ooli Present.” Musk seems within the skit as a stage supervisor who has a not-so-secret crush on Ooli, performed by Fineman. Former SNL forged member Kate McKinnon and present participant Mikey Day additionally seem within the sketch.