Colin Jost jokes about ‘hot’ UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter in SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The suspect in the shooting death earlier this week of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson took center stage during Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” with hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che needling the NYPD for not yet having caught the insurance executive’s killer. “t really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood, and the two main reactions were, ‘Yeah, well, health care stinks,’ and also, ‘Giiiirl, that shooter hot,’” Jost quipped. SNL’s Weekend Update segment needles the NYPD over their failure to capture the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting Michael Che worked in a comment on the public’s apparent lust for the suspect, saying, “We 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 ‘Lucky S. Bechalive.’” 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. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, himself a former NYPD captain, said on Saturday that police know the suspect’s name but “don’t want to release that now.” However, he claimed, “The net is tightening.”