The "Saturday Night Live" guest who made Chloe Fineman cry on set years ago has finally been unmasked — and it's none other than Elon Musk.
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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.
00:03Freak-offs.
00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.
00:07They were a rapper that we all know.
00:10Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.
00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.
00:15This is, I think, this is nuts.
00:17Yes, Elon Musk made someone cry at SNL.
00:22Now, we knew that a couple months ago.
00:23Bowen Yang did an interview, I think it was on Watch What Happens Live,
00:27and he said this, that it had happened when Elon was hosting the show a couple years ago,
00:33but he didn't want to reveal the name of the cast member.
00:36Well, the cast member has now come forward.
00:38Chloe Fineman says it was her.
00:42She was the one who cried.
00:44Why did she cry?
00:45Well, she explained that all in a post on TikTok,
00:49which, interestingly, she has now deleted.
00:51But, of course, it was captured.
00:53Here's what she described, how she described this interaction with Elon.
00:57I'm the cast member that he made cry.
01:00If you're going to, like, go on your platform and be rude, like, guess what?
01:05You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch.
01:12I was so excited.
01:14I came in.
01:15I asked if you had any questions, and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla,
01:20and I was like, it's not funny.
01:24I waited for you to be like, haha, JK.
01:26No.
01:27Then you started pawing through my script, like, flipping each page, being like,
01:31I didn't laugh.
01:32I didn't laugh once.
01:33Not one time.
01:35Cut to the sketch made it on, and it was, like, fine, and I actually had a really good time,
01:40and I thought you were really funny in it, but, you know, have a little manners here.
01:46I don't even know what to say.
01:48Now, Elon responded to this after she posted that, outing herself as the crying cast mate,
01:55and he said, frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that any of the sketches generated laughs.
02:01I was worried.
02:02I was like, damn, my SNL appearance is going to be so blanking and funny that it will make a crackhead sober.
02:08I don't know how, that's not funny either, Elon.
02:10That's not funny.
02:11But then it worked out in the end, he says.
02:13Now, okay, so everybody agrees that at the end it was kind of funny, or funny,
02:18but if you're a comedy writer, and she's very talented, but if you're a comedy writer,
02:24you've got to be, I mean, you do stand-up, and sometimes it just is a dud,
02:31and that doesn't mean that it wasn't funny, it just means the audience didn't respond to it.
02:37And if we're talking about her being thin-skinned, remember the whole reason this all came up
02:40is because SNL did a very, very mild impression of him last weekend, and he lost his mind about it.
02:45Which is crazy, too.
02:46It's thin skin battles thin skin here.
02:48It's true.
02:49But remember, she didn't call him out when it happened.
02:51She never talked about it.
02:52But she's like, now, if you're going to come after us, then I'm going to come back and say you were horrible.
02:55Look, you're putting yourself out there to somebody to say, what do you think?
03:01And it's like, are you soliciting a lie?
03:03If he doesn't like it, you're supposed to say you do?
03:06I mean, I just don't get it.
03:07You could say you don't like it, but it's the way she says that he approached her,
03:10because it is a collaborative effort, the whole show, between the cast and the host.
03:13And when you roll in as the host, and you're like, no, this doesn't work for me,
03:16then you're kind of souring the mood of the whole week.
03:18That's what makes that show work.
03:19You were really rude to me in the morning meeting today, and I didn't cry.
03:24Maybe you did.
03:25You might have gone in the bathroom and cried.
03:26I don't know.
03:27You seemed like you were crying on the inside.
03:28Yeah, there was something you said that got me.
03:31Hi, I'm Lexi from New York City.
03:33And I think Elon needs to stop putting his nose in things he doesn't need to be part of.
03:39Let the comedians write their jokes and have their fun.
03:42And if he wants to be part of it, great.
03:44If not, he doesn't need to sign up to do SNL.
03:47Right, but if they asked him to be on the show, and he's looking at it,
03:52doesn't he have a right to have a voice to say?
03:54I think he does.
03:55But I also think he should toughen up, too, because the Dana Carvey thing was kind of funny, actually.
04:00Kind of funny.