{"id":267134,"date":"2025-11-02T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267134\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:39:07","slug":"snl-lampoons-zohran-mamdanis-empty-promises-appeal-to-white-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267134\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL lampoons Zohran Mamdani’s empty promises, appeal to white guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d ripped Zohran Mamdani for making empty promises \u2014 and mocked his appeals to white guilt in a blistering parody of the New York mayor\u2019s race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mocking the socialist Dem\u2019s constant vacant smile, comedian Ramy Youssef rattled off a list of Mamdani pledges during his portrayal of the frontrunner on Saturday\u2019s NBC show.<\/p>\n

Asked by debate chair Kenan Thompson<\/a>, \u201cWhy would you want the worst job in the world?\u201d Youssef\u2019s Mamdani claimed he wanted to offer a \u201cbetter New York,\u201d before admitting his ideas were unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n

\"RamyComedian Ramy Youssef played Zohran Mamdani as \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d skewered the mayoral hopeful in the show\u2019s cold open. NBC \/ SNL<\/p>\n

\u201cFree healthcare, affordable housing, free WiFi,\u201d he said. \u201cAs mayor, can I make that happen? I\u2019m not sure yet. But together, we\u2019re going to find out\u2026 that the answer is no.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sketch, which also featured guest host Miles Teller as Andrew Cuomo and Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa, wen on to mock Mamdani\u2019s \u201chot girls for Zohran\u201d campaign<\/a> \u2014 depicting his supporters as gentrifying yuppies.<\/p>\n

Asked by the chair what his message to undecided voters was, Mamdani fawned directly into the camera while a \u201cheart\u201d filter came up on the screen.<\/p>\n

\"DemocraticThe sketch show took aim at the politician\u2019s empty promises and appeals to white guilt. James Keivom<\/p>\n

\u201cHey girl,\u201d he said. \u201cI know you got, uh, got a little white guilt for gentrifying that Spanish neighborhood, don\u2019t you? Why don\u2019t you vote for me?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, you feel a little less bad about that chicken and rice shop getting turned into a Sweetgreen,\u201d he added. \u201cSo why don\u2019t you hit me up at the ballot box, girl?\u201d<\/p>\n

Polling data shows Mamdani received the greatest support in the Democratic primary in Ridgewood, Bushwick and Bed-Stuy, three neighborhoods synonymous with gentrification in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Later in the sketch, James Austin Johnson reprised his role as President Trump to mock Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd here we have the front-runner, Zohran Mamdani,\u201d he said. \u201cLooks like the SubwayTakes guy went to work at McKinsey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, you feel a little less bad about that chicken and rice shop getting turned into a Sweetgreen. So why don\u2019t you hit me up at the ballot box, girl?\u201d he added, prompting a mock rebuke from chair Thompson.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Mamdani, you were warned that this is not the forum for your TikTokry,\u201d he said, referencing the 34-year-old\u2019s social media presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d ripped Zohran Mamdani for making empty promises \u2014 and mocked his appeals to white guilt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,5871,21783,111,12015,12016,92,194,10766],"class_list":["post-267134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-metro","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-politics","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-tv","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}