“Saturday Night Live” cast member Chloe Fineman has no regrets about calling out X owner Elon Musk for making her cry when he hosted “SNL” in 2021.
On Tuesday night, Fineman took to her Instagram Story (via Daily Beast) to write, “Remember when I got in trouble for calling out mr nazi salute? Ya, no regrets.” The post is in reference to Musk’s actions the day prior, when he stirred controversy with a gesture that drew comparisons to a fascist salute.
In August of 2024, Fineman’s castmate Bowen Yang revealed on “Watch What Happens Live” that a male “SNL” host made “multiple cast members cry” while table reading sketches. That November, Fineman posted a video on TikTok exposing Musk as that “male host.”
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“OK, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being like butt-hurt about ‘SNL’ and his impression, but I’m like, you’re clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about?” Fineman said in the video which has since been deleted. “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.”
Shortly after, Musk gave a less than apologetic response, writing on X, “Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs. 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.”