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Chris Rock hosted “Saturday Night Live” and filled his opening monologue with jokes about multiple topics in the news.
The targets of his stand-up set included Jake Paul and his boxing match with Mike Tyson, of which he joked, “This 27-year-old punching a 60-year-old in the face. Is this what the white man has reduced himself to? Who’s he going to fight next, Morgan Freeman? I hate Jake Paul. I got landlord hate for him.”
He also didn’t mince words about the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying, “I really feel sorry for the family. Everybody’s fixated on how good-looking this guy is. If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care. They’d give him the chair already — he’d be dead. But he actually killed a man — a man with a family. I mean, they have my condolences. This is a real person, you know? But you also got to go, you know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.”
Incoming President Trump’s promise of an aggressive deportation policy also got skewered by the comedian, who said, “Menendez Brothers are getting out of jail — just in time to get deported. Trump is going to deport their ass, you murdering Mexicans!”
Popular on Variety He also aimed at Trump’s recent BFF, Elon Musk, saying, “He’s working with the number one African American in the world. The richest African American in the world: Elon Musk. That’s right. He’s African American. Elon’s got more kids than the Cleveland Browns. That’s right. Nobody knows how to get rid of people like a South African.”
The comedian has hosted the sketch comedy series before, having dished out humorous quips about the pandemic and politics in 2020 and 2014.
Rock was also a cast member on SNL from 1990 to 1993.
