Elon Musk Booed Heavily At Dave Chappelle Show

Dave Chappelle brought Elon Musk on stage as he was performing at the Chase in San Francisco on Sunday to huge boos and jeers from the crowd, Jacob Stolworthy reported for The Independent.

Photo Insert: “It sounds like some of those people you fired are in the audience,” Chappelle joked, as Musk was booed by the audience.

The comedian was onstage when the Twitter owner made a surprise appearance. However, the crowd were unimpressed and could be heard heavily booing Musk, who was left “withering” from the reception.

“It sounds like some of those people you fired are in the audience,” Chappelle joked, referring to the reports that Musk fired a number of Twitter staff members who criticized him on internal employee message boards.

Musk also reportedly cut thousands of jobs in November after firing outsourced contract workers, including those who fight misinformation on the platform as content moderators.

In a video shared on social media, Musk can be seen standing on the stage, awkwardly, unsure of what to do. He then says to Chappelle: “You weren’t expecting this were you?”

Chappelle, appearing to defend Musk, then says: “Have you noticed one thing? All those people who are booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious, they have terrible seats.”

Crowd member James Yu tweeted after the event to say that the Twitter owner asked “what should I say??” as the boos continued for minutes and said 80% of the 18,000 in the crowd booed him “and he withers. Like absolutely turns into a corncob.”

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