Chris Rock on healthcare CEO killing: ‘Sometimes drug dealers get shot’
nme.comSaturday Night Live (SNL) host, comedian Chris Rock made a joke about the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in his monologue.Last night (December 14) Rock opened his monologue by speaking about Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect charged with Thompson’s killing. “Everybody’s fixated on how good-looking this guy looks,” Rock said. “If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care.
They’d already given him the chair already.”He continued: “But he actually killed a man, a man! A man with a family, a man with kids… I have real condolences for the Healthcare CEO…but you also gotta know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.”Also in the monologue, Rock made jabs at Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Jake Paul.
He joked: “Who is this Jake Paul? This 27-year-old punching a 60-year-old in the face. Is this what the white man has reduced himself to?
Stop it! Who’s he going to fight next, Morgan Freeman? I hate Jake Paul. I got landlord hate for him.”Rock also made a dig at Trump’s deportation policy, saying: “Menendez brothers are getting out of jail — just in time to get deported.
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