Saturday night live touched on the internet attention surrounding the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO who shot Luigi Mangione during his latest episode.
On Saturday, December 14, Sarah Sherman kicked off NBC’s sketch comedy show – this week hosted by Chris Rock – with her take Crime stories with Nancy Grace, where she played prosecutor-turned-TV host Nancy Grace in a cold-open show devoted to explaining how Mangione, 26, has “women and gay men who are equally hot and boring.”
“Our main story tonight, the masked CEO assassin is exposed and guess what? It’s game over Luigi,” Sherman’s Grace opened the skit, with Super Mario Bros. sound track.
“And, of course, everyone on the internet was celebrating the hard work of the police in catching this dangerous criminal. Just kidding! You’re all crazy making him a sex symbol,” she continued, later adding, “This guy looks like Dave Franco with Eugene Levy eyebrows. ”
Luigi Mangione’s lawyer told him in court: ‘Don’t say a word’ after the outburst outside the building
Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan on December 4.
After a multi-day manhunt, he was arrested on Monday, December 9 in Pennsylvania and charged with murder by authorities in New York.
After Sherman’s Grace claimed during the cold open that Mangione was not a “sex icon,” she pulled examples of social media users commenting on his “BDE” and calling him a “twunk.”
The host then invited the psychological analyst onto the show, who said she had “a lot to unpack”, before quickly cutting her off and moving on to her next topic.
Elsewhere in the skit, Sherman’s Grace spoke with a man named Donnell Davis — who she said was “at a McDonald’s” in Altoona, Penn., where Mangione was arrested. Davis’ character, played by Kenan Thompson, said he was at the restaurant when he “pretended to go to work so my wife wouldn’t find out.”
“Donnell, you were face to face with that criminal – can you believe people were attracted to this sexy killer?” asked Sherman’s Grace.
“I mean, you could look at him and tell he’s got a hoe,” Thompson replied while eating McDonald’s fries. “I mean, women love bad boys. You used to be able to impress your lady with a little song. Now you have to write a manifesto.”
Sherman’s Grace then asked Thompson’s character his take on “health care in this country,” to which he replied, “Well Nancy, I’ve been eating McDonald’s every day for three years. I have type 10 diabetes. Blue Cross? B- — , I have a blue foot.”
He also talked about “alternative medicine,” saying, “When they tell me how much a procedure costs, I ask, ‘What is an alternative?’ ”
The rest of the sketch also featured “a guy who happens to look like Luigi Mangione,” before Sherman’s character Grace ended the sketch with the classic line, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night.”
Luigi Mangione.
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The suspect in the shooting of the CEO had a ‘Manifesto’ against healthcare companies when he was detained: Source
Elsewhere during Saturday’s episode, Colin Jost shared a few more jokes about Mangione during a Weekend Update segment, noting that after he was arrested, “America started a delicate, nonsensical debate about who’s going to play this guy in a Netflix miniseries.”
“After police arrested suspected shooter Luigi Mangione, they found a message about him expressing anger at corporate America. Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then was caught at McDonald’s,” Jost, 42, also said. “So perhaps his greatest crime is hypocrisy.”
“The McDonald’s where the killer was caught got one-star Yelp reviews to punish them for snitching,” he began another joke. “First of all, who looks at Yelp reviews of McDonald’s? The only Yelp review of McDonald’s should be ‘It was open, five stars.’ ”
Rock, 59, also talked about Mangione during his opening monologue, expressing his “real sympathy” for Thompson and joking that “sometimes drug dealers get killed.”
The actor and comedian also joked about Mangione’s appearance, saying, “If he looked like Jonah Hill, nobody would care. They already gave him a chair. You’d be dead.”
Saturday night live airs weekends on NBC.
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