Elon Musk goes to Heidi Klum’s 2022 Hallowe’en Party at Cathedrale at Moxy Hotel on October 31, 2022 in New York City.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk was consulted with a mix of boos and cheers from an audience at a Dave Chappelle funny program Sunday night.
The comic brought the Tesla CEO out on the phase at an unique Punchline Comedy Club occasion at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
In a video shared on Twitter, the crowd can be heard jeering Musk, whose current purchase of the social networks platform has actually brought in criticism due to issues about mass layoffs and looser material small amounts.
“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle informs the audience. A variety of audience members cheered– though there was likewise a loud chorus of boos, too.
“You weren’t expecting this, were you?” Musk informs Chappelle following the boos.
Chappelle reacts: “It sounds like some of those people you fired are in the audience.”
Later in the video, Chappelle states: “All these people that are booing, I’m just pointing out the obvious — they have terrible seats in the stadium.”
The owner of the video that was published on Twitter appears to have had their account suspended or has actually taken it down, with a message reading: “This Tweet is from an account that no longer exists.”
Twitter, which laid off a number of interactions staffers in its relocate to cut approximately half its labor force, was not instantly offered for remark when called by CNBC.
Twitter user James Yu, who stated he was at the Chappelle program, tweeted: “A good 80% of the stadium boos. 18k people.”
“Dave gave him so many chances to speak but he just put his hands in his pockets,” Yu included.
“I actually felt bad for him. I’m by no means an Elon fanboy, more a centrist. I wanted to shake him: for the love of god man, say something and pretend it’s a tweet!!”
Musk reacted to the booing in a tweet published Monday.
“Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter). It’s almost as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists… but nahhh.”
Some of the conservative-leaning magnate’s tweets have actually outraged Democrats, LGBTQ activists and others.
Musk drew criticism for a tweet Sunday targeting Anthony Fauci, the outbound U.S. chief medical consultant who was the face of the White House’s reaction to Covid-19 The tweet fanned to a wave of online abuse and conspiracy theories directed at the veteran immunologist.
Musk, who when anticipated the Covid pandemic would end in April 2020, has actually consistently knocked the method of utilizing lockdowns to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
In the tweet Sunday, Musk buffooned making use of pronouns to describe an individual’s gender. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” the billionaire tweeted.
Several Twitter users decried the tweet’s transphobic undertones. Chappelle has himself been the target of criticism for making transphobic jokes in his Netflix stand-up unique “The Closer.”
Correction: This story has actually been upgraded to fix the spelling of Dave Chappelle’s name.
