Elon Musk Gets Booed Off Stage by Thousands of People at Dave Chappelle Show
The new Twitter CEO received a loud chorus of boos from the audience, leaving him unsure of what to say.
“Dave, what should I say?”
This is how Elon Musk waded into live comedy at Dave Chappelle’s show in San Francisco Sunday night, after forcing his material upon every Twitter user for weeks. Musk—so used to encouraging cry-laughing emojis from his adoring fans online—learned that Twitter is sometimes not real life.
Elon Musk was loudly booed by a crowd in San Francisco last night after he was invited onstage by Dave Chappelle https://t.co/muESqJKInr
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 12, 2022
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Musk’s performance was doomed from the beginning, given how Chappelle introduced him. “Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle said, almost inviting boos from the 18,000-seater stadium.
Musk paced back-and-forth across the stage while Chappelle attempted to redeem the moment.
“It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience,” he quipped. He could have left it at that. But alas.
“All those people who are booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious, you