Elon Musk booed by crowd after Dave Chappelle brings him on stage at comedy gig - CNBC

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was met with a substance of boos and cheers from an assemblage astatine a Dave Chappelle drama amusement Sunday night.

The comedian brought Tesla CEO Musk retired connected the signifier astatine a peculiar Punchline Comedy Club lawsuit connected Dec. 11 astatine the Chase Center successful San Francisco.

In a video shared connected Twitter, the assemblage tin beryllium heard jeering Musk, whose caller acquisition of the societal media level has attracted disapproval owed to concerns astir wide layoffs and looser contented moderation.

"Ladies and gentlemen, marque immoderate sound for the richest antheral successful the world," Chappelle tells the audience. A fig of assemblage members cheered — though determination was besides a large chorus of boos, too.

"You weren't expecting this, were you?" Musk tells Chappelle pursuing the boos.

Chappelle responds: "It sounds similar immoderate of those radical you fired are successful the audience."

Later successful the video, Chappelle says: "All these radical that are booing, I'm conscionable pointing retired the evident — they person unspeakable seats successful the stadium."

The proprietor of the video that was posted connected Twitter appears to person had their relationship suspended oregon has taken it down, with a connection reading: "This Tweet is from an relationship that nary longer exists."

Twitter, which laid disconnected respective communications staffers successful its determination to chopped astir fractional its workforce, was not instantly disposable for remark erstwhile contacted by CNBC.

Twitter idiosyncratic James Yu, who says helium was astatine the Chappelle show, tweeted: "A bully 80% of the stadium boos. 18k people."

"Dave gave him truthful galore chances to talk but helium conscionable enactment his hands successful his pockets," Yu added.

"I really felt atrocious for him. I'm by nary means an Elon fanboy, much a centrist. I wanted to shingle him: for the emotion of deity man, accidental thing and unreal it's a tweet!!"

Musk drew disapproval for a Sunday tweet targeting Anthony Fauci, the outgoing U.S. main aesculapian advisor who was the look of the White House's effect to Covid-19. The tweet added substance to the occurrence of a question of online maltreatment and conspiracies directed astatine the seasoned immunologist.

The Tesla main — who erstwhile predicted the Covid pandemic would extremity successful April 2020 — has repeatedly slammed the strategy of utilizing lockdowns to stem the dispersed of the coronavirus.

In the tweet, Musk mocked the usage of pronouns to notation to a person's gender. "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," the billionaire tweeted.

Several Twitter users decried the tweet's transphobic connotations. Chappelle has himself been the people of disapproval for making transphobic jokes successful his Netflix stand-up peculiar "The Closer."

Correction: This communicative has been updated to close the spelling of Dave Chappelle's name.