Chris Rock’s monologue for SNL jabbed at a number of figures within the information, together with Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the CEO of UnitedHealthcare who was killed in midtown Manhattan.
Final Saturday’s (Dec. 14) episode of Saturday Night time Reside was hosted by veteran comic Chris Rock. His opening monologue wasted no time in going after a number of folks outstanding in at this time’s information however began off with a playful jab at present director Lorne Michaels for “25 nice years of Saturday Night time Reside!” (The present is at present celebrating 50 years on the air.) Rock was a former forged member on the present from 1990 to 1993 and has hosted SNL 3 times in 1996, 2014, and 2020. He took a shot at Diddy first by bemoaning having to stroll by a pack of “child oil-sniffing canine.”
He continued by speaking concerning the seize of Luigi Mangione, the suspected shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. “I actually really feel sorry for the household,” Rock started. “All people’s fixated on how handsome this man appears. If he regarded like Jonah Hill, nobody would care. They’d already given him the chair already — he’d be useless. However he really killed a person — a person with a household, a person with youngsters. I’ve condolences. This can be a actual individual, you recognize? However you additionally obtained to go, ‘You already know, generally drug sellers get shot.’”
The Prime 5 actor additionally made positive to roast President-elect Donald Trump and his base of supporters by calling out the historical past of previous American presidents and his proposed plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. “Menendez brothers are getting out of jail — simply in time to get deported. Trump goes to deport their ass, you murdering Mexicans!” he quipped earlier than taking purpose at tech billionaire Elon Musk. “He’s working with the primary African American on the planet. The richest African American on the planet: Elon Musk. That’s proper. He’s African American. Elon’s obtained extra youngsters than the Cleveland Browns. That’s proper. No one is aware of learn how to do away with folks like a South African.”
Try the whole monologue above.
