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12-11-2024, 05:56 AM
https://latenighter.com/news/late-night-shows-largely-resist-naming-alleged-ceo-assassin/
The 26-year-old Ivy League grad's arrest on Monday for allegedly gunning down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week was addressed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Jon Stewart-hosted The Daily Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and After Midnight, but not on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, according to LateNighter. Kimmel was the only host to actually mention Mangione's name. “No matter how you feel about this,” said Kimmel, who is half-Italian. “I think we can all agree that no one could have imagined this suspect would have a name as funny as Luigi Mangione.” Stephen Colbert, meanwhile, had Mangione's name bleeped in his monologue "because if he didn’t do it, I don’t want to say it. And if he did do it, I don’t want to say it.”
The 26-year-old Ivy League grad's arrest on Monday for allegedly gunning down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week was addressed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Jon Stewart-hosted The Daily Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and After Midnight, but not on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, according to LateNighter. Kimmel was the only host to actually mention Mangione's name. “No matter how you feel about this,” said Kimmel, who is half-Italian. “I think we can all agree that no one could have imagined this suspect would have a name as funny as Luigi Mangione.” Stephen Colbert, meanwhile, had Mangione's name bleeped in his monologue "because if he didn’t do it, I don’t want to say it. And if he did do it, I don’t want to say it.”