Saturday Night Live’s post-Halloween episode opens with a political debate forum from New York City, where leading mayoral candidates make their final appeal to voters ahead of Tuesday’s election. Said candidates include disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo (host Miles Teller), “young, socialist, Muslim” frontrunner Zohran Mamdani (Ramy Youssef), and nutbag Republican long-shot Curtis Sliwa (Shane Gillis).
Cuomo notes that “as soon as you are elected mayor, everyone in the city immediately hates you and, in that way, I am already one step ahead of the game”. Mamdani promises a number of free services to help with the rising cost of living even as he admits he won’t be able to make good on them. Sliwa, meanwhile, talks about getting shot by various mob families and suffering genital attacks by Yakuza and Lords of the Flatbush gangs. Disgraced outgoing mayor Eric Adams (Kam Patterson) shows up and endorses Mamdani to cost him votes, but it’s no match for Mamdani’s sex/white guilt appeal.
