Elon Musk appeared on stage as a surprise at Dave Chappelle’s performance on Sunday in San Francisco. The Chase Center’s roughly 19,500-person audience had varying opinions about the billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter.
Chappelle added, to both cheers and jeers from the audience, “Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world.” “I see cheers and boos.” Chris Rock, who co-headlined the performance with Chappelle, is currently on tour.
Chappelle cracked a joke when the audience erupted once more, “It sounds like some of the individuals you fired are here.” “You have lousy seats,” I said to the hecklers, “I’m simply pointing out the obvious.” He also made light of Musk’s plans for SpaceX to explore space by informing him that he desired the establishment of the first comedy club on Mars.
When it comes to keeping his position as the richest man in the world, Musk is perched precariously. According to Forbes, Bernard Arnault briefly overtook him last week as investors responded to Musk’s recent business moves at Tesla and Twitter. Arnault, along with his family, runs the fashion conglomerate LVMH.
Musk bought Twitter this fall for $44 billion and began letting go of thousands of staff as well as top executives. He has faced criticism for his overhaul of the social media platform, which has caused some celebrity users to stop using it out of fear that his changes to the way that content is moderated, false information is spread, verified accounts are verified, and banned users are banned will lead to a spike in hate speech and deception.
After his 2021 Netflix special, which protesters denounced as transphobic, Chappelle has also sparked controversy.
At the concert on Sunday, Chappelle suggested an alternative to the audience’s booing. I’m your ally, he declared. “Everyone in this auditorium will experience happiness and peace. that you find satisfaction through your quest for happiness. Amen.” He ended by wishing the crowd good night.
The moment was captured in many films that Matt Novak, a senior writer at Gizmodo, posted on YouTube and which use coarse language. “For some reason, Twitter removed this video. This information is being distributed in the name of free speech “He wrote.
