Two months ago, Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang disclosed that “without naming names” there was an SNL host that made several cast members cry.
When appearing on Watch What Happens Live With Andy CohenYang was asked to reveal the worst SNL host behavior he'd ever witnessed on the NBC sketch show. “This man — this person, this host — made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday before the table read because he hated the ideas,” he answered.
On Monday, his SNL colleague Chloe Fineman named Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who hosted in May 2021, as the mystery host after Musk lamented over Dana Carvey's impression of him over the weekend. Musk wrote on X that the show has been “dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality.”
“Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further,” he added, referencing Vice President Kamala Harris' appearance on the show before Election Day. Musk, one of Trump's mega -donors during his campaign, is expected to receive a colossal financial windfall under the pro-corporate policies of a second Trump administration.
In a since-deleted TikTok, Fineman responded to Musk slamming the late-night show. “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 fired back. “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.”
Fineman seemed to reference Yang's previous comments and said that she had seen “some articles and stuff” about the SNL accident.
“I was like, I'm not gonna say anything. 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,” the actress said of Musk. “I was so excited, I came in, 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.'”
She continued, “Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being, like, 'I didn't laugh once, not one time.'” Fineman said the unidentified sketch eventually aired and she “actually had a really good time.” While she noted that the billionaire was “really funny in it,” Fineman had some notes of her own for Musk: “Have a little manners here, sir.”
