Elon Musk is booed during Dave Chappelle's comedy show - NBC News

Elon Musk was met with a substance of boos and cheers implicit the play erstwhile helium made a astonishment quality during Dave Chappelle’s amusement successful San Francisco. 

The comedian welcomed the tech billionaire and Twitter proprietor to the Chase Center signifier Sunday night. Videos of Musk’s quality person circulated online.

“Ladies and gentlemen, marque immoderate sound for the richest antheral successful the world,” Chappelle said, according to 1 video shared online by an relationship that nary longer exists arsenic of Monday morning.

The assemblage erupted successful cheers, which was rapidly overwhelmed with audible cries of “boo!” arsenic Musk, sporting an "I emotion Twitter" shirt, waved to the arena.

“Cheers and boos, I see,” Chappelle said arsenic Musk shrugged to the audience.

“Controversy, buddy. It sounds similar immoderate of the radical you fired are successful the audience,” the comedian said to the laughter of the assemblage and Musk.

Shortly aft taking implicit Twitter, Musk's squad announced widespread layoffs astatine the institution successful November. He has faced aggravated scrutiny over his enactment and presumption implicit escaped contented moderation policies.

“Dave, what should I say?” Musk asked astatine 1 constituent connected stage.

James Yu, who was successful the audience, tweeted: “A bully 80% of the stadium boos. 18k people. And helium withers. Like perfectly turns into a corncob.”

Yu noted that Musk didn't accidental overmuch during his clip connected stage.

"Dave gave him truthful galore chances to talk but helium conscionable enactment his hands successful his pockets," Yu wrote. "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 connected Monday shared his recollection of the audience's reaction.

"Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiescent periods), but, still, that’s a batch of boos, which is simply a archetypal for maine successful existent beingness (frequent connected Twitter). It’s astir arsenic if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh," helium tweeted.

Chappelle, similar Musk, is nary alien to controversy. He faced fierce disapproval over his comments astir the transgender assemblage successful a Netflix peculiar released past year. Hundreds of LGBTQ activists and Netflix workers marched extracurricular the company’s Los Angeles office to protestation the peculiar aft its release.