- Rock hosted SNL for the fourth time this weekend
- He made jokes about various figures in the news
- Rock joked Musk would deport illegal immigrants in a spaceship
Chris Rock took a shot at Elon Musk during his monologue hosting last night’s Saturday Night Live.
For his fourth time hosting the late-night show, Rock poked fun at multiple people making the news right now, one of those being Donald Trump.
Rock made jokes about Trump’s intended mass deportation plans and suggested Musk could be drafted in to help.
“He’s working with the number one African American in the world. The richest African American in the world: Elon Musk. That’s right. He is African American. Elon’s got more kids than the Cleveland Browns. That’s right. Nobody knows how to get rid of people like a South African,” he said.
“Oh he’s serious, Trump is not playing. He got Elon, they’re going to put ’em in a rocket ship. Call it SpaceMex.”
The SNL studio audience let out a huge groan when Musk was brought up.
“Is this what the white man has reduced himself to?”
Rock also made fun of Jake Paul’s recent fight against Mike Tyson.
“Who is this Jake Paul? This 27-year-old punching a 60-year-old in the face,” said Rock. “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 went on to talk about the recent assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “I really feel sorry for the family. Everybody’s fixated on how good-looking this guy [suspect Luigi Mangione] is,” he joked.
“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, a man with kids. I have condolences. This is a real person, you know? But you also got to go, ‘You know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.’”
What else happened on SNL this week?
Gracie Abrams made her SNL debut as a musical guest later in the program.
The 25-year-old singer-songwriter took to the show’s iconic studio 8H in New York’s Rockefeller Center to perform two songs, That’s So True and I Love You, I’m Sorry.
Her performance coincided with a wave of controversy over ticket prices for her US tour next summer. According to some outlets, fans have been left angry at tickets costing around $700 for a pair.
