Elon Musk booed at Dave Chappelle present amid Twitter anger

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was met with a combination of boos and cheers from an viewers at a Dave Chappelle comedy present Sunday evening.

The comic introduced the Tesla CEO out on the stage at a particular Punchline Comedy Membership occasion on the Chase Middle in San Francisco.

In a video shared on Twitter, the group might be heard jeering Musk, whose current buy of the social media platform has attracted criticism as a consequence of considerations about mass layoffs and looser content material moderation.

“Women and gents, make some noise for the richest man on the earth,” Chappelle tells the viewers. Plenty of viewers members cheered — although there was additionally a loud refrain of boos, too.

“You were not anticipating this, have been you?” Musk tells Chappelle following the boos.

Chappelle responds: “It feels like a few of these individuals you fired are within the viewers.”

Later within the video, Chappelle says: “All these individuals which are booing, I am simply stating the apparent — they’ve horrible seats within the stadium.”

The proprietor of the video that was posted on Twitter seems to have had their account suspended or has taken it down, with a message studying: “This Tweet is from an account that not exists.”

Twitter, which laid off a number of communications staffers in its transfer to chop roughly half its workforce, was not instantly obtainable for remark when contacted by CNBC.

Twitter consumer James Yu, who mentioned he was on the Chappelle present, tweeted: “An excellent 80% of the stadium boos. 18k individuals.”

“Dave gave him so many possibilities to talk however he simply put his palms in his pockets,” Yu added.

“I truly felt dangerous for him. I am in no way an Elon fanboy, extra a centrist. I needed to shake him: for the love of god man, say one thing and faux it is a tweet!!”

Musk responded to the booing in a tweet posted Monday.

“Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (besides throughout quiet intervals), however, nonetheless, that is loads of boos, which is a primary for me in actual life (frequent on Twitter). It is nearly as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists… however nahhh.”

A few of Musk’s current tweets have angered Democrats, LGBTQ activists and others.

He drew criticism for a tweet Sunday concentrating on Anthony Fauci, the outgoing U.S. chief medical advisor who was the face of the White Home’s response to Covid-19. The tweet added gasoline to a wave of on-line abuse and conspiracy theories directed on the veteran immunologist.

Musk, who as soon as predicted the Covid pandemic would finish in April 2020, has repeatedly slammed the technique of utilizing lockdowns to stem the unfold of the coronavirus.

Within the tweet Sunday, Musk mocked the usage of pronouns to consult with an individual’s gender. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” the billionaire tweeted.

A number of Twitter customers decried the tweet’s transphobic connotations. Chappelle has himself been the goal of criticism for making transphobic jokes in his Netflix stand-up particular “The Nearer.”

Correction: This story has been up to date to right the spelling of Dave Chappelle’s title.