Chloe Fineman Stands by Calling Out Elon Musk for Making Her Cry
Chloe Fineman is standing by her comments calling out Elon Musk for making her cry when he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2021.
Fineman, 36, took to her Instagram story on Tuesday, January 21, to write: “Remember when I got in trouble for calling out Mr. Nazi salute? Yeah, no regrets.” (Fineman was referencing Musk’s apparent Nazi salute at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.)
The SNL actress first admitted in November that she was the one Bowen Yang was talking about in an August interview on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen when he said a “male host” made a cast member cry.
“I’m like, no, if you’re gonna go on your platform and be rude like, guess what?” she continued. “You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch, I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you have 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, ‘Haha, JK.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script being like, ‘I didn’t laugh once. Not one time.’”
Fineman concluded her video by saying she had the last laugh.
Yang had her back, not mentioning Fineman’s name in interviews, but defending her before she revealed herself.
“Imagine you stay up until 4 a.m. writing a sketch and then the host is like, ‘I f—ing hate this,’” said Yang in a September appearance on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast. “Your nerves are frayed, you’re going to have some weird, bizarre emotional response.”
Musk responded to Fineman’s TikTok via X shortly after, writing, “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 unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober!! But then it worked out in the end.”