Regarding Mangione, co-anchor Colin Jost joked: "This week, America continued the delicate, sensitive debate over who will play this guy in the Netflix miniseries."
Jost then mentioned Mangione's apparent manifesto targeting the health insurance company, which may have been motivated in part by a spine disorder that required surgery.
"After police arrested suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, they found a note on him expressing anger at corporate America. Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then was caught at McDonald's," Jost joked. "So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy."
The McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania where Mangione was found has been bombarded with one-star Yelp reviews after an employee called authorities when they recognized him-"to punish them for snitching," as Jost put it. "First of all, who looks at Yelp reviews of McDonald's? The only Yelp review of McDonald's should be, 'Was open. Five stars.'"
As for the mysterious drones, which not even the FBI seem to know the source of, co-anchor Michael Che said he could rule out about half the population.
"Tensions about drones flying above New Jersey continued to rise after a drone crashed into a person's backyard, but at least now we know whoever's flying them is the friggin' women, right?" he said out of the side of his mouth.
The pair then weighed in on some Trump-related headlines, the first being how the president-elect-who also became a felon in 2024-was named Time magazine's Person of the Year. Jost had a good reason for the publication's decision: "Because no person on Earth has taken out more of our goddamn time."
Jost then riffed on the other bit of news. "Trump also said Friday he would try to permanently end daylight savings time-by challenging the sun to a staring contest," he joked, as a photo showed on screen of Trump appearing to look right at the 2017 solar eclipse without protective eyewear.
The segment concluded with shots at two frequent targets: former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"It was announced that Matt Gaetz will host a new talk show on One America News Network called The Matt Gaetz Show," Che said. "He'll be covering everything from quinceañeras to prom night jitters."
Che then noted how McConnell suffered minor injuries after a recent fall. "Thankfully," he reacted, "he landed on his hardshell back."