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Saturday Night Live jumped into the nation’s morbid fascination with Luigi Mangione, the person accused of fatally capturing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The chilly open kicked off with Sarah Sherman’s incredulous true crime entertainer Nancy Grace, who complained that “women and gay guys alike” have made Mangione right into a “sex symbol.”

She stated Mangione regarded 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 stated, slurring the “u” into incoherence.

Later within the sketch, she asks a personality performed by Kenan Thompson if he believes social media customers are literally interested in 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,” stated Thompson, whose character was on the Altoona, Pennsylvania restaurant the place police found Mangione.

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The sketch kicked again to Grace asking his character concerning the state of healthcare within the US, then in the reduction of 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 requested.

“Well Nancy, I been eating McDonald’s every day for 10 years,” Thompson’s character stated. “I’ve got type-10 diabetes. … You know what my health insurance plan is called? ‘Hoping it goes away.’”

Grace’s ultimate visitor: a “guy who looks like Luigi Mangione,” performed by forged member Emil Wakim.

Being mistaken for Mangione hsa “kind of a rollercoaster for me,” he stated.

“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 stated.

Saturday’s host, comic Chris Rock, additionally tackled the phenomenon surrounding Mangione’s fan in his opening monologue.

Rock joked that if Mangione appear like Jonah Hill, “no one would care.”

“They’d already give him the chair already, OK?” he stated.

Rock expressed sympathy for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reminding the viewers that he was an actual human being with a household.

“But sometimes,” he stated, “drug dealers get shot.”

Thompson was shot on the streets of Manhattan by a gunman — alleged to be Mangione — which kicked off a days-long manhunt for the killer.

He’s now going through second-degree homicide costs in New York.

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The CEO’s killing has delivered to mild absolutely the disdain that some Americans have for the non-public US medical health insurance business.

Some social media commenters have expressed a complete lack of sympathy for Thompson, with many recalling how their family members both died after their healthcare insurance coverage claims have been rejected or reside in ache attributable to declare denials.

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore — whose 2007 documentary Sick interrogates the US healthcare business — was allegedly talked about by identify in Mangione’s manifesto. After being requested by some media retailers to sentence the homicide, he stated he did — however he additionally condemned what he referred to as the murders of Americans by the hands of medical health insurance corporations and the politicians who shield a for-profit healthcare business.

He stated Americans have been “1,000 percent justified” in expressing rage in direction of well being insurers, and stated he wished to “pour gasoline” on that fireplace.

Even the UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty acknowledged that the US insurance coverage business is damaged.

“We know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people’s frustrations with it,” Witty stated in a latest op-ed for The New York Times. “No one would design a system like the one we have.”