{"id":349823,"date":"2025-11-02T07:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349823\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:20:10","slug":"snl-cold-open-zohran-mamdani-steals-the-show-says-hit-me-up-at-the-ballot-box-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349823\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Cold Open: ‘Zohran Mamdani’ steals the show, says ‘hit me up at the ballot box, girl’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SNL Amid the US government shutdown, a World Series nail-biter, and an election season that already feels like a sitcom, Saturday Night Live decided to pile on the chaos with its own New York City mayoral debate, complete with bagel jokes, socialist charm, and a surprise Trump cameo.Miles Teller returned to Studio 8H as a slick-talking Andrew Cuomo, Ramy Youssef turned up as a painfully polite Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, and Kenan Thompson\u2019s Errol Louis tried to keep the circus on track. <\/p>\n

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But of course, the debate didn\u2019t stay on the rails for long \u2014 especially once James Austin Johnson\u2019s Donald Trump<\/a> crashed the stage, declaring himself the true star (and maybe the next mayor).While introducing himself, Teller\u2019s Cuomo said he was a \u201cborn, bred New Yorker\u201d who \u201cknows this city like the back of a woman\u2019s back.\u201d Special guest Ramy Youssef followed as Zohran Mamdani, saying he was \u201chappy to be here, and I\u2019m ready to spend the next hour hearing my opponents pronounce my name in ways you couldn\u2019t begin to imagine.,the Hollywood Reporter reported. He added, \u201cAnd I know some of you are out there scared of the idea of a young socialist Muslim mayor. So allow me to put you at ease by smiling after every answer in a way that physically hurts my face.\u201dShane Gillis then stepped into the role of Curtis Sliwa, steering the sketch into the heart of the debate. The faux candidates answered questions on why they would \u201cwant the worst job in the world,\u201d their go-to bagel orders and what they would say to \u201cundecided voters.\u201d Over the undecided voters, Mamdani said, “My message is this. Hey, girl, I know you got a little white guilt for gentrifying that Spanish neighborhood, don’t you? Why don’t you vote for me? You know, you feel a little less bad about that chicken and rice shop getting turned into a sweet green. So why don’t you hit me up at the ballot box, girl?” Towards the end, James Austin Johnson\u2019s Trump made his grand appearance when candidates were asked about the \u201cbiggest problem\u201d they would have to tackle as mayor. \u201cIt\u2019s me!\u201d Johnson\u2019s Trump exclaimed. \u201cYes, they can pretend this election is about housing and taxes, but we all know it\u2019s about me, right? \u2019Cause I\u2019m gonna be very involved, very hands on. This guy knows about hands on, right, Cuomo?\u201dJohnson\u2019s Trump also answered Kenan Thompson\u2019s question about his go-to bagel order, calling it a \u201cBig Mac with a hole in the middle,\u201d before referencing his time in New York. \u201cAnd I may not live in New York anymore. Oh, but I\u2019m always watching, lurking in the shadows, much like the late, great Phantom of the Opera,\u201d he said. \u201cTerrible what happened to him in terms of opera, with regard to being burned by chandelier. Perhaps I\u2019ll add New York Mayor to my list of duties. Come on, open up your mind. Let your fantasies unwind in this darkness which you know. The darkness of the music of the night,\u201d Johnson\u2019s Trump sang to close out the cold open. In the opening monologue, Teller spoke about losing his home in the Los Angeles wildfires earlier in the year. \u201cA lot has happened since the last time that I hosted [SNL],\u201d Teller said. \u201cA few months ago, my wife and I lost our house in the Palisades fire. But don\u2019t worry, seriously, do not worry, we\u2019re doing great.\u201d He added, \u201cBut that experience has made me incredibly grateful to have so many places that I can call home. But based on what happened to the last place that I called home, I just want to say, there\u2019s fire exits located there, there, there,\u201d while pointing to differing spots in the studio. Saturday night marked the second time Teller has served as an SNL host; his most recent appearance was on October 1-2022, making it exactly three years and one month since his debut on the series. The Top Gun: Maverick star was the fourth host of season 51. He will be followed by Nikki Glaser and Glen Powell as hosts in the coming weeks, with Sombr and Olivia Dean joining as musical guests on Nov. 8 and 15. Earlier this season, Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter took turns as hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the US government shutdown, a World Series nail-biter, and an election season that already feels like a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69,171,108151,144090,171385,67,132,68,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-349823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-political-satire","11":"tag-saturday-night-live-cold-open","12":"tag-snl-new-york-mayoral-debate","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115478896997932543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}