SNL’s “woke” studio viewers erupted in applause on the point out of accused UnitedHealthcare murderer Luigi Mangione throughout a phase over the weekend, visibly stunning even forged member Colin Jost.
Mangione, 26, has attracted a following of unhinged fangirls since his Dec. 9 arrest, a whole lot of whom have been writing him letters and making deposits into his jailhouse commissary account, correction officers have stated.
Throughout Saturday’s “Weekend Update” phase, Jost namedropped Mangione as he went into his wind-up for a joke, which immediately prompted raucous cheers from what seemed like largely ladies.
Jost appeared to be shocked by the response, glancing offstage and awkwardly smiling whereas sarcastically quipping to the viewers, “Yeah, definitely ‘woo,’ ” and rhetorically asking, “You’re ‘wooing’ for justice, right?”
Mangione was hit with new federal prices in New York final week — together with first-degree homicide — for allegedly gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outdoors a Midtown Manhattan Hilton on Dec. 4.
The brand new prices imply the privileged Ivy League graduate — who has been adopted as one thing of a bizarro people hero by the deranged, anti-capitalist left — may very well be eligible for the dying penalty if convicted.
The cheers from the group of the long-running late-night sketch present drew swift condemnation from quite a few pundits and journalists on X.
“These people are freaking SICK,” wrote impartial journalist Nick Sortor.
Creator Jennifer Sey, hitting out at what she perceives as hypocrisy, wrote, “The SNL viewers have to be the dumbest group of pathetic woke conformists recognized to man.
“Here they cheer for a silver spoon/trust funder murdering a stranger with some deranged Robin Hood ‘I’m a hero’ story. Audience is moronic. And evil.”
Journalist and New York Submit columnist Piers Morgan referred to as the second “disgusting” and ripped Jost for his response.
“Colin Jost just smirks away as if it’s all one big giggle. Shameful moment for SNL,” Morgan wrote on X.
Anti-CEO sentiment has grow to be fashionable in left-wing activist circles after the general public execution of the daddy of two, inflicting some companies to take safety measures similar to scrubbing the names and likenesses of prime executives from their web sites or hiring safety guards.
