‘You shut the f**k up’: Chaos Ensues as Dave Chappelle Fails to Tame Crowd Booing Elon Musk on Stage
Elon Musk is not a fan favorite at the moment, and there is no one to blame except himself. His reception had always been ambiguous at best. But ever since he bought Twitter for $44 billion and created virtual and literal havoc both on the microblogging site, and its offices, his popularity has taken a deep dive. The Tesla owner laid off a large number of Twitter employees who now have his name as a primary nemesis, and then his new community guidelines for the social media site are not being universally lauded either, but the 51-year-old never seemed to care. Until he was onstage before a crowd, being booed by thousands of people, at Dave Chappelle’s show.
Elon Musk gets brutally booed at Dave Chappelle’s San Francisco show
Sunday Night at Chase Center, San Francisco saw a crowd boo Elon Musk to their heart’s content. There were no phones allowed at the show but a brave soul managed to capture most of the chaos on their phone and share it with the world.
As Dave Chappelle was about to conclude his set for the day, he decided to call the celebrity CEO onstage,
“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world.”
There was some booing in the crowd but some cheering too, and within seconds the former reigned supreme. Musk got naturally flustered by the crowd’s reaction and the boos kept getting louder than ever. He kept walking back and forth on the stage with a mic in one hand and waving the other one, like a nervous kid who doesn’t belong there. Chappelle tried breaking the ice by saying, “Cheers and boos, I see. Elon…” The business magnate just replied, “Hey Dave,” and in came more boos.
Chappelle then tried to salvage the situation by cracking a joke.
“It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience.”
He went on to make another joke about the booing audience being poor.
“All these people who are booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious, you have terrible seats,”
But none of it could help with what an utter disaster the night was becoming.
Elon Musk vs the crowd
Chappelle then tried playing the bad cop game and started mildly roasting Musk to appease the crowd. He joked, “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.”
The comedian then proposed the idea of “t*tty bars” in space. And the crowd got back to laughing. Musk managed to dish out a nervous “Thanks for having me up on stage,” to which Chappelle further joked that he would never have missed the opportunity and that they have a deal for Chappelle to have the first comedy club on Mars.
The awkward banter went on for quite some time until Musk got embarrassed and asked, “Dave, what should I say?” To which Chappelle replied,
“Don’t say nothing. It’ll only spoil the moment. 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.”
There was pure chaos in the crowd, and the 49-year-old thought it best to conclude the show on a diplomatic note. He said,
“I wish everyone in this auditorium peace and the joy of feeling free. And your pursuit of happiness. Amen.”
Both men on stage got clearly tired of the ordeal as the audience was just not having it.
The founder of Sudowrite, James Yu was among the audience, as he tweeted later that night,
“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.”
The whole experience looks like a brutal reality check for Musk who now has a decent idea of the haters he’s got out there.
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Source: Gizmodo
