{"id":34481,"date":"2025-11-10T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:36:07","slug":"john-oliver-celebrates-mamdani-blasts-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34481\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Celebrates Mamdani, Blasts Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Oliver celebrated Zohran Mamdani<\/a>\u2018s win in the New York City mayoral race on Sunday\u2019s episode of Last Week Tonight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMamdani prevailed over Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, who\u2019d been endorsed by President Donald Trump, in Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

\n\tOliver showed footage of Mamdani\u2019s victory speech, in which the mayor-elect stated: \u201cI wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But let tonight be the final time I utter his name as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOliver noted that many pundits criticized the speech, with CNN\u2019s Van Jones opining that it was \u201csharp\u201d and marked a \u201ccharacter switch\u201d for Mamdani. (Other criticism came from the Washington Post, which ran an editorial that said: \u201cAcross 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn\u2019t about unity.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat seems deeply unfair to me,\u201d Oliver said after quoting Jones. \u201cHe just weathered one of the most Islamophobic campaigns in recent memory. \u2018I wish Andrew Cuomo all the best in private life\u2019 is a frankly superhuman level of grace to extend to a man who has yet to pronounce your name correctly once, especially given that he could have said, \u2018Andrew, your campaign was terrible.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOliver then pointed to Cuomo\u2019s ads, including several reportedly produced by AI. One in particular featured \u201cthe bill from Schoolhouse Rock, pregnant, and with luscious kissable lips,\u201d Oliver said, then continued with an alternate version of what Mamdani could have said to Cuomo in his speech: \u201cDo you want to fuck the bill from Schoolhouse Rock, Andrew? Do you? Well, great news, now you actually can in your private life. I wish you the best, you pervert.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Oliver celebrated Zohran Mamdani\u2018s win in the New York City mayoral race on Sunday\u2019s episode of Last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80,6131,20463,20464,20465,9,56,63,65,64,17575,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-34481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-andrew-cuomo","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-john-oliiver","11":"tag-last-week-tonight","12":"tag-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-politcs","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34481","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=34481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}