Saturday Night Live jumped into the nation’s morbid fascination with Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The cold open kicked off with Sarah Sherman’s incredulous true crime entertainer Nancy Grace, who complained that “women and gay guys alike” have made Mangione into a “sex symbol.”
She said Mangione looked like “Dave Franco with Eugene Levy’s eyebrows.”
“This man is not a sex icon. This man is — and I cannot say this any clearer — a murderer,” she said, slurring the “u” into incoherence.
Later in the sketch, she asks a character played by Kenan Thompson if he believes social media users are actually attracted to the “sexy slayer,” to which Thompson replied: “Well I mean, you can look at him and tell he had h**s.”
“I mean, women love bad boys,” said Thompson, whose character was at the Altoona, Pennsylvania restaurant where police discovered Mangione.
The sketch kicked back to Grace asking his character about the state of healthcare in the US, then cut back to Thompson shoving a McDonald’s burger into his mouth.
“People are saying healthcare in this country is bad. Then how come by dentist gives me breast exams for free?” she asked.
“Well Nancy, I been eating McDonald’s every day for 10 years,” Thompson’s character said. “I’ve got type-10 diabetes. … You know what my health insurance plan is called? ‘Hoping it goes away.’”
Grace’s final guest: a “guy who looks like Luigi Mangione,” played by cast member Emil Wakim.
Being mistaken for Mangione hsa “kind of a rollercoaster for me,” he said.
“On one hand I keep getting tackled by bounty hunters, but on the other I’ve gotten some of the horniest DMs of my life,” he said.
Saturday’s host, comedian Chris Rock, also tackled the phenomenon surrounding Mangione’s fan in his opening monologue.
Rock joked that if Mangione look like Jonah Hill, “no one would care.”
