Elon Musk responds to making “SNL”'s Chloe Fineman cry, says he worried about episode being 'f---ing unfunny'

Fineman said the Tesla CEO made her "burst into tears" during his 2021 hosting stint.

Elon Musk isn’t too torn up about making Saturday Night Live cast member Chloe Fineman cry.

The Tesla CEO was far from apologetic on Tuesday, when he offered his response to Fineman identifying him as the SNL host who brought multiple cast members to tears with his response to their sketch ideas. In a now-deleted TikTok posted on Monday, Fineman said Musk — who hosted back in May 2021 — made her "burst into tears" after she "stayed up all night" writing a sketch that he ultimately hated.

"Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs,” Musk wrote on his social media platform, X, replying to a repost of Fineman’s video. "I was worried. I was like damn my SNL appearance is going to be so f---ing unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober!!”

He added, “But then it worked out in the end.” Along with this response, Musk shared a link to his appearance at the September All-In Summit, where he discussed his SNL experience in more detail.

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"I was a bit worried in the beginning there because frankly, nothing was funny,” Musk said at the tech conference, reflecting on his week with the SNL cast. After describing the first pitch meeting as “rough,” he revealed the R-rated sketch that he came up with himself and pitched to producers, only to be shot down.

The rejected pitch went as follows: “One of the things that I think everyone’s been wondering this whole time is, ‘Is Saturday Night Live actually live?’ But there’s a way to test this,” Musk began. He said the cold open would begin with him walking out onstage, throwing his monologue script to the ground and saying, “We’re going to find out tonight, right now, if Saturday Night Live is actually live. And the way that we’re going to do this is I’m going to take my c--- out. And if you see my c---, you know it’s true. And if you don’t, it’s been a lie.”

The rest of the sketch involved Musk reaching into his pants and pulling out a baby rooster. He would then be joined onstage by then-cast member Kate McKinnon, who would compliment his “tiny c---.” While the panel’s crowd burst out into laughter, Musk said the pitch was not so well received by SNL’s producers, who were  “aghast” and responded with “silence.”

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“We come in guns blazing with ideas,” Musk said of his team. “And we didn’t realize that’s not how it works and that normally its actors, and they just get told what to do. Like, ‘Oh. You mean we can’t just do funny things that we thought of?’”

More recently, Musk leveled criticism at SNL after the latest episode included Dana Carvey performing an impression of him. Musk took to X to say that the show “has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality.” This prompted Fineman’s TikTok, in which she said of Musk, “I’m gonna come out and say that I’m the cast member that he made cry. He’s the host that made someone cry. I saw some articles and stuff and 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..."

She recounted being “so excited” to present Musk with a sketch only to be harshly criticized. “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 said he then began “pawing through my script saying, 'I didn’t laugh. I didn’t laugh one time.'" Her response now? “Have a little manners here, sir.”

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Fineman's costar Bowen Yang also hinted at the incident earlier this year, during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.

Asked to, without naming names, reveal the worst behavior that he's seen from an SNL host, Yang said, "This man who... this person, this host made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday during the, before the table-read, because he hated the ideas.”