Elon Musk, the billionaire who needs nothing extra in life than to be adored by legions of followers, was loudly booed by a crowd in San Francisco on Sunday evening after he was invited onstage by comic Dave Chappelle. And the footage is fairly tough, even for those who don’t significantly like Musk.
“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle stated close to the top of his set on the Chase Center.
The crowd erupted into a mix of cheers and boos, earlier than the boos clearly gained out, in keeping with footage posted on Twitter. The booing received louder as Musk wandered round onstage with a microphone in hand. Musk began pacing and waving, clearly uncertain what to do about such a destructive response.
“Cheers and boos, I see. Elon…” Chappelle stated.
“Hey Dave,” Musk responded, prompting one other wave of boos from the gang.
“It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience,” Chappelle joked.
“All these people who are booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious, you have terrible seats,” Chappelle stated, apparently making an attempt to avoid wasting Musk’s dignity by calling the people who find themselves booing poor.
Phones weren’t allowed contained in the stadium for the present, however no less than one particular person snuck theirs in and captured the weird alternate, posting it to Twitter.
Chappelle tried to salvage the encounter, in keeping with a second video posted to Twitter, joking, “his whole business model is fuck Earth, I’m leaving anyway.”
“What kind of pussy they got up there? That’s what we’ll be doing,” Chappelle stated, in keeping with the video.
After Chappelle’s jokes about “titty bars” in area, the gang appeared to be correctly gained over and Musk began to talk once more.
“Thanks for having me up on stage,” Musk stated awkwardly to extra boos.
“The first comedy club on Mars….” Chappelle stated, as Musk stood by awkwardly simply saying “yeah.”
As the laughs for Chappelle’s jokes would get drowned out by boos anytime Musk tried to speak, the comic stated that folks might boo all they need, as a result of Musk had given him a jetpack final Christmas.
But each single time Musk started to talk, the gang began booing once more, a lot to the frustration of Musk.
“Dave, what should I say?” Musk stated, clearly determined and getting embarrassed on the roar of booing.
“Don’t say nothing. It’ll only spoil the moment,” Chappelle stated. “Do you hear that sound, Elon? That’s the sound of pending civil unrest. I can’t wait to see what store you decimate next, motherfucker. You shut the fuck up.”
The temper within the stadium undoubtedly modified when Chappelle began to get hostile in protection of Musk.
“I wish everyone in this auditorium peace and the joy of feeling free,” Chappelle stated, clearly exhausted that bringing Musk on stage had been such a failure. “And your pursuit of happiness. Amen.”
At that time, Chappelle clearly determined to throw within the towel, thanking the gang and saying good evening, however a third video exhibits Chris Rock becoming a member of the stage together with just a few different individuals.
One of the lads onstage is requested by Chappelle to shout the catchphrase from his 2000s sketch present, “I’m rich, bitch,” into the mic. The man dutifully complies, then says, “wait, wait,” whereas handing the microphone to Musk, clearly wanting him to say the identical factor. Musk does, in probably the most awkward tone you can think about. The crowd once more erupts into boos, solely drowned out by somebody within the stadium’s sound division honking a horn of some kind.
It’s tough to inform from the movies exactly what proportion of the gang was booing through the cringeworthy episode, however some on social media estimated it was the overwhelming majority of individuals within the 18,000-capacity stadium.
“Was at the Dave Chapelle show at SF tonight and who comes on but Elon Musk! A good 80% of the stadium boos. 18k people. and he withers. Like absolutely turns into a corncob. ‘What should I say??’ He says Dave tries to salvage the situation but to no avail,” James Yu, the founding father of Sudowrite, stated on Twitter.
“Obv simple to armchair play afterwards, however no less than say one thing. ‘Thanks. Now pay me $8′ and mic drop would have gotten a laugh. He did mumble something about being in a simulation, but felt totally off vibe for the crowd,” Yu explained.
Musk, who used to have a rather bipartisan appeal in the U.S., has outed himself as an entitled right-wing prick in the short span that he’s owned Twitter. Musk purchased Twitter, together with a variety of buyers, for $44 billion on the finish of October when he virtually instantly instigated brutal layoffs.
Musk has additionally been making an attempt to court docket a number of the worst individuals on the web currently, tweeting over the weekend that his “pronouns” are “Prosecute/Fauci.” The tweet is outwardly each a “joke” about people who find themselves trans, and a reference to the far-right perception that Anthony Fauci, the nation’s main infectious illness skilled, was one way or the other accountable for the covid-19 pandemic that struck the whole world.
Obviously, San Francisco is named a liberal metropolis and it wouldn’t be an enormous shock for a Bay Area crowd to boo the wealthiest man on this planet. But it’s not like this was a crowd of antifa supersoldiers or one thing. The individuals in attendance had been there to see Dave Chapelle, a person who’s lately outed himself as an anti-trans bigot. Chris Rock was additionally a headliner, in keeping with the native press.
Maybe the gang was made up of the 1000’s of individuals Musk laid off from Twitter, as Chappelle joked. That actually looks like a really actual chance, given the response. But actually, Musk has been such an asshole for thus many various causes currently, it’s powerful to slim it down. Musk has additionally been directing his hostility at former workers, a few of whom elected to remain on with the corporate after Musk’s preliminary purge, like Yoel Roth, the previous head of Trust and Safety at Twitter.
Musk made a fully baseless suggestion that Roth was in favor of the sexualization of kids, an obvious ploy to invent his personal QAnon mythology that the billionaire is on a quest to personally finish the exploitation of kids world wide. In actuality, Musk has gutted the staff at Twitter that screens for baby exploitation materials, in keeping with Wired UK.
Musk might not face any actual penalties in his life—like when he received away with baselessly calling someone a pedophile—given his monumental wealth, however all the cash on this planet can’t purchase you genuine adoration from crowds of individuals. Perhaps Musk ought to stick with his protected area on Twitter. He did pay $44 billion for it, in any case. And he will get loads of love from bizarre nerds who need nothing greater than to be in proximity to his wealth, even when it’s digital. Unfortunately for Musk, the Chase Center in San Francisco doesn’t have a block button.