Elon Musk Booed Off Stage While Appearing at a Dave Chappelle Show: ‘It’s Almost as If I’ve Offended Unhinged Leftists’
“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” the comedian, 49, announced while introducing the Tesla CEO, 51, during his Sunday, December 11, stand-up show in San Francisco. The crowd immediately erupted into both cheers and jeers, with the boos soon drowning out any applause. “Sounds like some of those people you fired are in the audience,” he quipped to Musk, who made headlines in November for firing dozens of Twitter employees after taking over the social media app. The SpaceX founder also got head when he made jokes about pronouns over the weekend. “All these people who are booing — and I’m just pointing out the obvious — they have terrible seats,” Chappelle continued, attempting to joke with Musk about getting a “jet pack” from him and wanting to own the first comedy club on Mars. At one point, Musk imitated Chappelle’s famous Rick James impression, yelling out, per CNN , “I’m rich, bitch!” Despite the attempt to go on with Musk’s surp...