‘Sometimes drug dealers get shot’

For the fourth time as host Saturday Night Livecomedian Chris Rock started by covering Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old assassin for United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“Everybody’s fixated on how good this guy looks,” Rock said, referring to unprecedented level of online thirst around the young killer. “If he looked like Jonah Hill, nobody would care. They’d already given him the chair.”

Rock continued, “But he actually killed a man, a man! A man with a family, a man with kids… I really feel for the Healthcare CEO. But you also have to know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.”

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

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

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

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

“That’s right, he’s African-American. Elon had more kids than the Cleveland Browns,” Rock said, adding, “No one knows how to get rid of people like a South African.”

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

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

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