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Elon Musk is a South-African born Canadian-American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, born in 1971. He was a co-founder of PayPal, which was sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion. He then founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors. He is chief executive and chief designer at SpaceX and CEO and head of product design at Tesla and chairman of Solar City. Musk purchased Twitter in September 2022.

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11 Dec, 2022

Musk booed at Chappelle show

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At the San Francisco stop on his joint tour with Chris Rock, Chappelle brings Musk on to the stage as a special guest…

Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world!

…to loud boos and cheers from the 18,000 people in the audience. Chappelle:

It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience…You shut the f*ck up with your boos.

During the few minutes that he was on stage, Musk deferred to Chappelle for instruction on how to handle the negative reactions, asking: “What should I say?” to which Chappelle said: “Don’t say nothing, it’ll only spoil the moment. You hear that sound, Elon? That’s the sound of pending civil unrest.” In an attempt to cut through the awkwardness, Musk borrowed a line from Chappelle’s Show, yelling, “I’m rich, bitch!”

Musk, in a deleted tweet, later claimed that the cheering to booing ratio was 90% cheers to 10% boos.

But, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life. It’s almost as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh.