Dave Chappelle Fans Reveal Why Elon Musk Was Booed: ‘The Chase Center Turned Into the Apollo’ - Rolling Stone

Reading the room is not 1 of Dave Chappelle’s sharpest skills. On Sunday, the comedian amazed the assemblage astatine the San Francisco halt connected his associated circuit with Chris Rock by bringing retired Elon Musk arsenic a peculiar guest. What helium didn’t anticipate, however, was however overmuch his fans — particularly those successful a metropolis famously known for its technological innovation — perfectly loathe him. “You unopen the fuck up with your boos,” Chappelle told the crowd, which ping-ponged betwixt cheering and booing whenever Musk would halt oregon commencement talking.

“My archetypal absorption erstwhile helium stepped ft connected signifier was, ‘Oh wow. This guy,’” Chappelle instrumentality Chris Douglas told Rolling Stone. “As for the boos, let’s conscionable accidental it outweighed the cheers. It was similar the Chase Center turned into the Apollo.”

He added: “I was conscionable successful shock. I didn’t applaud oregon partake successful the booing. I was wholly neutral.”

Online, descriptions of the assemblage absorption heavy veered toward a brutal evisceration by mode of booing, but immoderate fans who were contiguous recovered it a small much hard to get a wide work connected the ambiance of the arena. “Some radical booed and others cheered erstwhile Chappelle introduced him,” Claudia Alfaro shared. “I deliberation Chappelle didn’t rather work the country oregon possibly wanted a daze factor. Either way, it conscionable didn’t marque consciousness to person Elon up determination incapable to grip the concern himself.”

During the fewer minutes that helium was connected stage, Musk deferred to Chappelle for acquisition connected however to grip the antagonistic reactions, asking: “What should I say?” His friend’s advice? “Don’t accidental nothing, it’ll lone spoil the moment.” In an effort to chopped done the awkwardness, the prolific shitposter borrowed a enactment from Chappelle’s Show, yelling, “I’m rich, bitch!” The boos lone grew louder.

Musk attempted to minimize the harm to his ego connected Twitter aft the event, claiming that the cheering to booing ratio was 90 percent to 10 percent. “But, still, that’s a batch of boos, which is simply a archetypal for maine successful existent life,” helium wrote. “It’s astir arsenic if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh.” (After receiving a dense dose of mockery online, Musk deleted the tweet.)

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“Understandably, due to the fact that of who Musk is arsenic a idiosyncratic and maine being from the Bay Area, who has household that enactment astatine Tesla successful Fremont, wherever the radical favoritism suit is taking place, his quality made maine dissatisfied,” Douglas explained. “On the different hand, him being the caller proprietor of Twitter and supposedly reinstating suspended accounts could triumph maine implicit arsenic my Twitter relationship [has been] suspended since 2019.”

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But Musk’s awkward effort astatine making the champion retired of an undeniably embarrassing concern seemingly didn’t bash overmuch to triumph overmuch of the remainder of the assemblage over. At 1 constituent aft helium took the stage, a combat broke retired successful the little bowl, nevertheless it’s unclear if that was the effect of anyone’s opposing views of the megabillionaire. Chappelle explained distant the scuffle with a gag that didn’t rather land, suggesting that the attendees were antifa protestors.

“Everything incorrect with this amusement is y’alls fault,” Chappelle told the crowd. Apparently taking accountability, oregon utilizing captious reasoning skills, isn’t 1 of his sharpest skills, either.