Chris Rock’s ‘SNL’ Monologue Slams Jake Paul, Elon Musk, Trump and Healthcare CEO’s Assassination: ‘Sometimes Drug Dealers Get Shot’
Chris Rock hosted the Dec. 14 episode of “Saturday Night Live” and filled his opening monologue with jokes about multiple topics in the news.
The targets of his mini stand-up set included Jake Paul and his boxing match with Mike Tyson, of which he joked, “Who is this Jake Paul? This 27-year-old punching a 60-year-old in the face. Is this what the white man has reduced himself to? Stop it! 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 looks. If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care. They’d already given him the chair already — he’d be dead. But he actually killed a man — a man with a family,...
The targets of his mini stand-up set included Jake Paul and his boxing match with Mike Tyson, of which he joked, “Who is this Jake Paul? This 27-year-old punching a 60-year-old in the face. Is this what the white man has reduced himself to? Stop it! 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 looks. If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care. They’d already given him the chair already — he’d be dead. But he actually killed a man — a man with a family,...
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