“SNL” cold opener, Chris Rock monologue joke about Luigi Mangione’s arrest

“Saturday Night Live” has a lot to say about Luigi Mangione.

The latest episode of the sketch show was hosted by Chris Rock, whose monologue addressed the arrest of the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“Everyone is fixated on how good-looking this guy is,” the comedian joked. “If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care. They had already given him the chair. He would be dead.”

Rock expressed his sympathy for Thompson’s family while also building a punchline.

“(Mangione) actually killed a man,” he said. “A man with a family, a man with children. I offer my condolences to the healthcare CEO. I mean, this is a real person. But you know, sometimes drug dealers get shot. I mean, you’ve seen The Wire, right?”

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Jokes made in last week’s episode about Thompson’s death failed with some viewers, who called them in bad taste on social media platforms like X.

Thompson, 50, was married and had two children. In an op-ed for The New York Times, Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealthcare, remembered him as a “brilliant, kind man who worked to improve health care for everyone” and said that his family, friends and colleagues carry “a grief and a sadness that we will carry for the rest of our lives.”

Saturday’s episode began with a cold open with Nancy Grace, played by Sarah Sherman, reporting on Mangione’s arrest. She expressed confusion when reading explicit online comments about the suspect, who she said “looks like Dave Franco with Eugene Levy’s eyebrows.”

“Of course, everyone online celebrated the hard work of law enforcement in apprehending this dangerous criminal,” said Grace of Sherman. “Just kidding, you psychos made him a sex symbol!”

She then interviewed a man, played by Kenan Thompson, who was at the McDonald’s where Mangione was seen before his arrest.

“Women love bad boys,” he said. “You used to be able to impress your old lady with a little poem. Now you have to write a manifesto.”

The show couldn’t resist pointing out that lead actor Emil Wakim bears a resemblance to Mangione. The comedian played a man who Grace noted “coincidentally looks like the suspected shooter.”

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“I haven’t paid for food in Brooklyn in days,” he explained.

The jokes about Mangione continued on “Weekend Update,” with Colin Jost joking that the suspected shooter was angry at the American economy but went to Starbucks and McDonald’s.

“Perhaps hypocrisy was his greatest crime,” Jost joked.

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It’s continued to be a season for returning “SNL” alums, with Adam Sandler making a surprise appearance in Saturday’s episode.

Rock starred in a skit as a surgeon whose procedure on a patient goes horribly wrong due to mistakes made by the nurse (Sherman). About two minutes later, the patient was revealed to be Sandler, who insisted that everyone be careful with the nurse even though he was spraying blood.

Sandler was a member of the “SNL” cast from 1990 to 1995. When he returned as host in 2019, he sang a song about how he was fired from the show.

Sandler was the latest “SNL” alum to return, following Dana Carvey and David Spade, who appeared in a sketch last week as Church Lady and Hunter Biden, respectively.

“SNL” will return next week with its final episode before Christmas with host Martin Short and musical guest Hozier.

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