“‘YOU GUYS REALLY THINK I’M THE PROBLEM HERE?’ — AZIZ ANSARI’S UNEXPECTED SNL TAKEOVER AS KASH PATEL TURNS THE COLD OPEN INTO A TOTAL CHAOS FEST WITH SHOCKING ONE-LINERS AND A MOMENT THAT HAD THE STUDIO SCREAMING WITH LAUGHTER!”!“YOU GUYS REALLY THINK I’M THE PROBLEM HERE?” — just when you thought the Saturday Night Live cold open was heading for predictable political humor, Aziz Ansari took the podium as Kash Patel and completely flipped the script.
What To Know
- Aziz Ansari made a surprise debut on SNL‘s cold open as FBI director Kash Patel.
- He made self-deprecating jokes about incompetence and stereotypes.
- Ansari’s Patel humorously addressed controversies about his job performance and alleged drinking.
Saturday Night Live‘s cold open just featured Aziz Ansari making his surprise debut as FBI director Kash Patel.
During the Saturday, May 2 cold open titled “Hegseth and Patel Iran Press Briefing Cold Open,” Ashley Padilla as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced her maternity leave before Colin Jost as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kicked things off by taking questions from reporters.
One reporter asked about Hegseth reciting a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction and whether he knew it wasn’t really from the Christian scripture. “Yeah! But also, I do believe that someday it will be… Now I’m not going to apologize because I wear my religion on my sleeve, literally. I have a tattoo on my forearm of Jesus choking out Jimmy Kimmel.”
In an unexpected twist, Ansari as Patel was next to take the podium. He confidently declared, “For those of you saying I’m doing a bad job running the FBI, well, what if I told you this agency is only six weeks away from pinpointing the exact location of Osama bin Laden?”
Patel also claimed to be a “trailblazer” by being “the first Indian person to suck at their job.” He explained, “Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites.”
