Chris Rock hosted “Saturday Evening Reside” and stuffed his opening monologue with jokes about a number of matters within the information.

The targets of his stand-up set included Jake Paul and his boxing match with Mike Tyson, of which he joked, “This 27-year-old punching a 60-year-old within the face. Is that this what the white man has diminished himself to? Who’s he going to combat subsequent, Morgan Freeman? I hate Jake Paul. I acquired landlord hate for him.”

He additionally didn’t mince phrases concerning the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying, “I actually really feel sorry for the household. Everyone’s fixated on how handsome this man is. If he appeared like Jonah Hill, nobody would care. They’d give him the chair already — he’d be useless. However he really killed a person. A person with a household. I imply, they’ve my condolences. This can be a actual particular person, you already know? However you additionally acquired to go, you already know, generally drug sellers get shot.”

Elon Musk and incoming President Trump additionally acquired skewered by the comic.

The comic has hosted the sketch comedy sequence earlier than, having dished out humorous quips concerning the pandemic and politics in 2020 and 2014.

Rock was additionally a solid member on SNL from 1990 to 1993.