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Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The show’s premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC’s Saturday Night. The show’s comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary American culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest.

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12 Nov, 2024

Fineman: Musk made me cry on SNL

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In a deleted TikTok post, Fineman says Musk made her cry at a table-read for the SNL show he hosted. The incident had previously been reported by co-star Bowen Yang, who had said that a male host had once made ‘muliple cast members cry’ because ‘he hated the ideas’.

OK, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being like butt-hurt about ‘SNL’ and his impression, but I’m, like, you’re clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about? And I’m like, you know what? 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. Maybe there’s others.

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, like, guess what? 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 had 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, ‘Ha ha, jk.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being, like, ‘I didn’t laugh once, not one time.

According to Fineman, the sketch, which she thought was ‘fine’, made it onto the show, and she ‘actually had a really good time.’

I thought you were really funny in it. But, you know, have a little manners here, sir.

10 Nov, 2024

Musk reponds to Carvey SNL impression

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In response to Carvey’s Musk impression on SNL, in which Carvey says:

Check it out – dark MAGA – but seriously, I run the country now. America’s gonna be like one of my rockets: You know, they’re super cool and super fun, but there’s a slight chance it could blow up and everybody dies.

Musk responds:

SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality.Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further…They are so mad that @realDonaldTrump won….Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.