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Subject: Jimmy Kimmel Laughs, Shares Staffers' Texts About CEO Killer Being 'Hot'
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:08:38 -0500
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel joined the conversation following the arrest of 
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian 
Thompson, sharing text exchanges from show staffers who made light of the 
assassination.

Kimmel used his monologue on Tuesday night to share screenshots of text 
exchanges between people who work on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and their family 
members and friends.

“We definitely know who wins Time‘s ‘Sexiest Alleged Murderer of the Year,’ 
that would go to Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting of the CEO of 
UnitedHealthcare,” Kimmel began. He added that Mangione has “become the 
hottest cold-blooded killer in America” as social media users circulated 
photos of him online.

“I’m not sure what this says about us, but ever since these photos of him 
came out from his holding cell, from his mug shot … someone found his abs 
somewhere online,” the 57-year-old comedian continued. “Ryan Murphy right now 
is flying to Netflix headquarters in a jetpack.”

“So many women and so many men are going nuts over how good-looking this 
killer is,” Kimmel said. “There’s a huge wave of horny washing over us right 
now. It’s like when one of the guys you work with says, ‘I had a dream about 
you last night.’ When it’s the FedEx guy with the big muscles and the 
rolled-up sleeves, you’re like, ‘Ohh.’ But if it’s the bald IT guy wearing 
Crocs with black socks, you’re on the phone with HR.”

Kimmel went on to introduce staffers’ text exchanges about Mangione, keeping 
the conversations anonymous “to protect the guilty.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAc4DJhlEU

In one text thread, a staffer wrote, “People are saying a NY jury has the 
power to find him innocent, bc we all love him,” to which someone replied, 
“I’m not mad at him.”

“Please tell me you’re as obsessed as I am with this handsome CEO killer,” 
another text about the accused murderer said. “Yes! So many questions,” the 
response said. “Like, ‘Can I fix you?’” the original texter wrote back. 

One staffer said she was “texting all my friends in NY that I hope they get 
called for jury duty,” and posted a reply saying, “God I want to do jury duty 
so bad.”

Another staffer said she hoped to “bake him cookies” in prison, while another 
said she was “about to be a jailhouse bride.”

“At least it’s stirring up a passion for civic duty, I guess,” Kimmel joked, 
discussing how people are making merch and having lookalike contests. “It’s 
bananas. But I have to say, it does feel kind of good; we’re moving away from 
nonstop election coverage and back to drooling over a cold-blooded murderer’s 
eyebrows and abs. I think that might be progress, maybe not, I don’t know.”

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