Chris Rock joked that “no one would care about UnitedHealthcare CEO Luigi Mangione’s alleged assassin if he looked like Jonah Hill in his Saturday Night Live monologue.”
“We have Luigi…you know. And that’s good. I really feel sorry for the family. I mean, everyone’s fixated on how good-looking this guy is,” he said on the sketch comedy show Saturday.
“If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care. They had already given him the chair. “He would be dead, okay?” the comedian added.
Rock, 59, said Mangione allegedly “killed a man” who had a family and children.
“I mean, I have my condolences… I have real condolences for the healthcare CEO. “This is a real person, you know?” he continued.
“But you also have to say, ‘You know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.’ “I mean, you’ve seen ‘The Wire,’ right?” the actor said as the audience erupted in laughter.
Mangione, 26, is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he walked outside a Hilton hotel in New York City on Dec. 4.
After police arrested the Ivy League college graduate, photos of him went viral on the Internet and many users were enamored by his appearance.
Mangione was charged with second-degree murder, multiple weapons offenses, forgery, presenting false identification to police and more.
Elsewhere in his opening monologue, Rock criticized Jake Paul for beating Mike Tyson in their highly publicized boxing match last month.
“Who is this Jake Paul?” the “Everybody Hates Chris” alum asked.
“This 27-year-old punches a 60-year-old in the face. Is this what the white man has reduced himself to? Stop it!” he added.
“Who will he fight next, Morgan Freeman? I hate Jake Paul. I felt the landlord’s hatred for him.”
