“Saturday Night Live” cast member Chloe Fineman appeared to solve a mystery Monday about which recent “SNL” host made someone cry: She said that the host was tech billionaire Elon Musk and that she was the one in tears.
In August, fellow cast member Bowen Yang said on a podcast that a male “SNL” host made multiple cast members cry because the host hated their ideas for sketches. Yang didn’t name the host, setting off rounds of speculation about who it was.
Fineman said in a video, which has since been deleted from TikTok, that the backstory involved her and Musk.
“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,” she said in the video.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, hosted the show in May 2021, delivering the opening monologue and appearing in several sketches. He dressed as a cowboy and the videogame character “Wario.”
Fineman said she “burst into tears” in the lead-up to the show, after she presented Musk with a script.
“I stayed up all night writing the sketch,” she said in the TikTok video. “I was so excited.”
But, she said, Musk wasn’t amused.
“You stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla,” she said, doing an impression of the billionaire saying, “It’s not funny.”
“Then you started pawing through my script flipping each page being like, ‘I didn’t laugh,’” she said.
Musk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday about Fineman’s video.
A spokesperson for “SNL” also didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Fineman didn’t say which sketch it was, but she said it made it onto the show and turned out well.
“I actually had a really good time, and I thought you were really funny in it,” she said, addressing Musk directly in the video.
“Saturday Night Live” is a TV show of NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News.
In the three-plus years since Musk hosted, he seems to have soured on the long-running variety show. A vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, Musk this month criticized “SNL” for having Vice President Kamala Harris as a guest before Election Day.
Earlier Monday, Musk criticized comedian Dana Carvey’s portrayal of him on the most recent episode.
“SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality,” Musk said on X.
That jab apparently got to Fineman, who said Musk was being “rude” by attacking the show now — and prompting her to speak out about him.
“You’re clearly watching the show,” she said. “Have a little manners here.”
