Chris Rock’s Saturday Night Live monologue this weekend was a shock to audiences, as he delivered pointed and controversial jokes about the recent murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Rock’s comedic approach to the tragedy has provoked immediate backlash while the brutal assassination has dominated headlines.

“He actually killed a family, a man with kids … I have condolences for the health care CEO. This is a real person, but sometimes drug dealers get shot. You seen The Wire, right?” Rock quipped, standing in Studio 8H.

The live audience reacted to his remarks with audible gasps and a flood of criticism online. Rock’s seemingly careless remarks about the high-profile killing were met with disapproval by many viewers.

“I stopped watching after the sick joke about Brian Thompson,” wrote one user on X. “After feigning to offer condolences to the family of the murdered man, he made a joke about him being a drug dealer.”

The joke that really shook me was when Rock mentioned Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of murdering Thompson.”Everybody’s fixated on how good-looking this guy is. If he looked like Jonah Hill, nobody would care. They would have already given him the chair and he’d be dead,” Rock said.

A Satirical Deep Dive

Rock’s monologue was not the endpoint of the SNL episode. A satirical sketch featuring Sarah Sherman as legal commentator Nancy Grace added fuel to the controversy. Sherman’s Grace ridiculed the internet’s odd fixation on the accused shooter, Mangione, whom she referred to as ‘Dave Franco with Eugene Levy eyebrows’.

“What is going on in this country? This man is not a sex icon. This man is — and I cannot say this any clearer — a murderer,” she exclaimed.

“Back in the day, you could impress your old lady with a little poem, now you got to write a manifesto,” referring to Mangione’s take on the Health Insurance industry.

In the segment, Kenan Thompson portrayed Donnell Davis, an unemployed man who is having a hard time dealing with the absurdity of modern social norms. “You know what my health insurance plan is? It’s called ‘hoping it goes away,’” Thompson’s Davis said.

The Case Against Luigi Mangione

The real-life events that led to Brian Thompson’s murder are chilling. The 50-year-old CEO is believed to have shot Luigi Mangione, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, near a Hilton hotel in Manhattan. An observant employee led police to the arrest of Mangione at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania after a five-day manhunt. Authorities found a 3D-printed weapon with a homemade silencer, a loaded Glock magazine, fake IDs, and a manifesto that blamed healthcare leaders for corporate greed. Ballistics evidence linked the weapon to the crime scene, and Mangione’s fingerprints were found on items close to the shooting location. According to Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, Mangione has been charged with murder and is expected to be extradited to New York City. He will be represented by Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, who is a prominent former Manhattan prosecutor.

Chris Rock Sparks Outrage on SNL with Jokes About Murdered CEO

A Satirical Deep Dive

The Case Against Luigi Mangione

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