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SNL slammed for 'classless' jokes about assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson


Saturday Night Live was slammed after making jokes about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday. The manhunt for the shooter continues.

Later in the segment, Jost again needled the NYPD, who recently began searching Central Park Lake after finding the suspected shooter's bag nearby. Colin Jost, who co-hosts Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update with Michael Che, started off the segment by poking fun at the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO A mystery gunman (pictured in surveillance footage) fatally shot Brian Thompson, 50, the CEO of America's biggest health insurer, in Midtown Manhattan early on Wednesday morning

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