‘SNL’ Host Chris Rock on CEO Killing: ‘Sometimes Drug Dealers Get Shot’

For his fourth time hosting Saturday Night Live, comedian Chris Rock started off by covering Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old assassin of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“Everybody’s fixated on how good-looking this guy looks,” Rock said, referring to unprecedented level of online thirsting around the young killer. “If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care. They’d already given him the chair already.”

Rock 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.”

Rock soon turned his attention to President-elect Donald Trump, ripping into “the nine New Yorkers that didn’t vote for him” for being concerned about how “undignified” Trump would be as president.

“Dude, it’s the United States presidency,” Rock said. “Come on, man. This is not the most dignified job in the world. We’ve had presidents show up to the inauguration with pregnant slaves, OK? And I’m just talking about Bill Clinton.”

Rock continued, “You know what country we live in. You know the history of this country. You know how many rapists are in my wallet right now? A cup of coffee in America costs seven rapists. Trump’s gonna get it down to three.”

Rock also joked about Trump’s deportation plans, saying that “this time is different” because Trump will be working with “the richest African American in the world: Elon Musk."

“That’s right, he is African American. Elon got more kids than the Cleveland Browns,” Rock said, adding, “Nobody knows how to get rid of people like a South African.”

Rock ended his monologue with a light-hearted defense of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter shortly before he was due to be sentenced to prison.

“Only an animal would not pardon their son,” Rock argued. “Every parent in the world would pardon their son.”

He added, “Except the parents of the Menendez brothers.”