Are they booing me, Smithers? No, Mr SpaceX, they’re saying boo, boo-ster, booster!
In a bizarre move Elon Musk took to the stage with Dave Chappelle at a comedy gig in San Francisco this weekend to a chorus of boos, and little in the way of repartee.
Chappelle, no stranger to controversy himself, welcomed Musk to the stage at the end of his three-hour act Sunday night, encouraging thousands of folks at the Chase Center stadium to « make some noise for the richest man in the world. »
Elon strode on, raised his hands in the air, and the crowd did as it was told, but it wasn’t the noise Musk nor Chappelle were perhaps happy with.
Instead, the booing was unrestrained. If there was any cheering, it was hard to make out.
« Weren’t expecting this, were you? » Musk asked Chappelle.
« It sounds like some of those people you fired are in the audience, » Chappelle responded, who joked that it appeared most of the boos were coming from the cheap seats.
Despite a ban on cellphones in the stadium, videos of Musk’s embarrassing cameo quickly surfaced online, in which the crowd’s reaction can be heard pretty clearly. They weren’t happy, tho the SpaceX and Tesla tycoon insists the majority of the crowd were on his side, natch.
Musk claimed this morning that « it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter).
