{"id":134939,"date":"2024-12-09T03:32:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134939"},"modified":"2024-12-09T03:32:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T20:32:48","slug":"colin-jost-jokes-about-hot-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooter-in-snls-weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134939","title":{"rendered":"Colin Jost jokes about \u2018hot\u2019 UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter in SNL\u2019s \u2018Weekend Update\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/brian-thompson-shooting-united-healthcare-ceo-killed-b2660806.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:suspect;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">suspect<\/a> in the shooting death earlier this week of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/united-healthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-disgruntled-employee-gunman-b2660618.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson<\/a> took center stage during Saturday Night Live\u2019s \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d with hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che needling the NYPD for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/brian-thompson-ceo-unitedhealthcare-shooting-questions-b2660656.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:not yet having caught;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">not yet having caught<\/a> the insurance executive\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cThis week, New York City officials sent a tough message on crime: If you shoot somebody in the middle of the street, you better get on your bike, hop on a bus, and get the heck out of here, mister,\u201d Jost said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-shooting-suspect-photos-updates-b2660832.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:masked gunman has eluded cops;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">masked gunman has eluded cops<\/a> since fatally shooting Thompson, 50, on Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan where the father of two was set to address an investor conference. Police believe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/ceo-ap-fbi-brian-thompson-new-york-b2660432.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shooter fled the scene on an electric bicycle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shooter fled the scene on an electric bicycle<\/a>, cut through Central Park, then took a cab to the Port Authority\u2019s George Washington Bridge Bus Station in Washington Heights to make his getaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">As the dragnet extends far beyond New York and other law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, join the search, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/brian-thompson-shooting-smiling-suspect-b2660077.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:surveillance photo of the suspect\u2019s unmasked face;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">surveillance photo of the suspect\u2019s unmasked face<\/a> has led to plenty of discourse around his looks. The shooter has also led to a plethora of murder ballads composed and performed by singer-songwriters furious over the state of for-profit healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201c[I]t really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood, and the two main reactions were, \u2018Yeah, well, health care stinks,\u2019 and also, \u2018Giiiirl, that shooter hot,\u2019\u201d Jost quipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Michael Che worked in a comment on the public\u2019s apparent lust for the suspect, saying, \u201cWe were able to get the smiling picture of the suspect after the man apparently was caught on camera at a local hostel flirting with a female employee, whose name has been reported as \u2018Lucky S. Bechalive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Jost went on to poke fun at the massive police presence on Wednesday around Rockefeller Center, where the annual tree-lighting ceremony was to take place that night. The Hilton is only a block or so away from the site, and 30 Rock, where SNL is broadcast, is also in the immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cIt\u2019s also so crazy that the shooting happened three blocks from here in broad daylight, and the guy just bicycled away,\u201d Jost said. \u201cProbably because they have every cop in the city guarding our Christmas tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">On Tuesday, the day before Thompson was killed, UnitedHealthcare released its projections for 2025, which said the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedhealthgroup.com\/newsroom\/2024\/2024-12-3-uhg-business-outlook-investor-conference.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:expects revenues of $450 billion to $455 billion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><u>expects revenues of $450 billion to $455 billion<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">New York City Mayor Eric Adams, himself a former NYPD captain, said on Saturday that police know the suspect\u2019s name but \u201cdon\u2019t want to release that now.\u201d However, he claimed, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-shooting-suspect-photos-updates-b2660832.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The net is tightening;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The net is tightening<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/colin-jost-jokes-hot-unitedhealthcare-191133451.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect in the shooting death earlier this week of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson took center stage during Saturday Night Live\u2019s \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d with hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134939\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}