There have been 894 different hosts over at Saturday Night Live over a 50-year span. John Mulaney quipped that "only 2 were murderers."
It was a funny joke.
Editor's Note: The 2 Murderers? O.J. and Robert Blake.
But then the internet chimed in:
Technically, 3 murderers. O.J., Robert Blake, and Alec Baldwin.
Editor's Note II: Alec Baldwin was found not guilty in a court of law of manslaughter. A punchline of 3 would have been very uncomfortable, seeing that Baldwin was in the audience.
Then another internet sleuth spoke up:
Technically, 4 murderers. O.J., Robert Blake, Alec Baldwin, and Matthew Broderick.
Editor's Note III: Matthew Broderick plead down to Careless Driving from manslaughter. The victim's families called the plea deal a "travesty of justice."
That's a 1 in 233.5 chance that any given SNL Host is a murderer. That actually seems dangerously high.
And on the flip side of the coin, the chances of any given U.S. citizen being murdered is 1 in 25,000. Phil Hartman was murdered in 1998, giving the chances of an SNL Host being on the receiving end of a homicide at 1 in 894.
I also didn't mention those that died young or due to suicide.
Man, that Mulaney Joke got really dark, really quick.
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