{"id":255103,"date":"2026-06-04T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255103\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:05:08","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdanis-lifelong-dream-is-to-be-on-snl-as-pals-campaign-for-him-to-guest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255103\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s \u2018Lifelong Dream\u2019 Is to Be on \u2018SNL\u2019 as Pals \u2018Campaign\u2019 for Him to Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Page Six reported on Tuesday, June 2, that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani hopes to appear on Saturday Night Live, reflecting interest in a prominent cultural stage. The report cites a &#8220;lifelong dream&#8221; to go live from Studio 8H and notes that creator Lorne Michaels previously declined. Sources describe a whisper campaign by acquaintances, while a Mamdani contact says no formal ask was made and an SNL representative says nothing has come their way. Page Six also recounts a prior pitch during his campaign that was passed over for creative reasons. Background includes a viral TikTok moment and his remarks on The View about early weeks in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Page Six reported on Tuesday, June 2, that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani hopes to appear on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98592,98375,9,56,63,65,64,43479,82],"class_list":["post-255103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-lifelong-dream","tag-lorne-michaels","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-page-six","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}