Piers Morgan is talking out towards the controversial viewers response to a “Weekend Replace” joke about Luigi Mangione.

Throughout final evening’s “Weekend Replace” phase, when host Colin Jost talked about Mangione, the prime suspect charged with the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the group instantly erupted into cheers, prompting figures like Morgan to criticize the present.

Whereas Jost seemed uncomfortable on the crowd’s response, unable to complete his sentence, he reacted sarcastically by saying: “You’re wooing for justice, proper?”

Morgan wrote on X: “So disgusting… and Colin Jost simply smirks away as if it’s all one huge giggle. Shameful second for SNL.”

Jennifer Sey, an writer and enterprise govt, additionally took to social media to reply to the cheers. On X, she wrote: “The SNL viewers should be the dumbest group of pathetic woke conformists identified to man. Right here they cheer for a silver spoon/belief funder murdering a stranger with some deranged Robin Hood ‘I’m a hero’ story. Viewers is moronic. And evil.”

Proper-wing accounts have particularly spoken out in regards to the second. Stephen Miller, president-elect Donald J. Trump’s homeland safety advisor, subtweeted the video on X, writing: “Revolting. Sickening. Vile.”

Mangione being talked about on “SNL” is one more instance of the media and world’s present fascination with him. Since being arrested, Mangione has gone viral, with many individuals taking curiosity in his Ivy League background and manifesto talking out towards the healthcare trade’s insurance policies.

This additionally isn’t the primary time “SNL” has talked about Mangione in a phase. Throughout final week’s episode, Sarah Sherman joked: “Y’all psychos discover him a intercourse image … He has ladies and homosexual guys sizzling and bothered.”

Mangione is anticipated to be introduced earlier than a court docket in New York tomorrow. He’s at the moment being held on the Metropolitan Detention Middle.