{"id":620798,"date":"2026-05-03T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620798\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:18:14","slug":"snl-got-rid-of-kash-patel-because-of-loux-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620798\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Got Rid of Kash Patel Because of Loux Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThis week\u2019s episode of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d stared with a political cold open that brought Aziz Ansari<\/a> to the sketch show.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe segment began with Ashley Padilla\u2019s Karoline Leavitt launching a press briefing at the White House.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou know I\u2019m going on maternity leave, which is when you ask President Trump about maternity, and he says, \u2018Leave,’\u201d she snarked.<\/p>\n

\n\tLeavitt quickly ceded the mic to Pete Hegseth<\/a>, played this season by Colin Jost<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not going to apologize because I wear my religion on my sleeve, literally,\u201d he said. \u201cI have a tattoo on my forearm of Jesus choking out Jimmy Kimmel.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tNear the end his time on the mic, Hegseth said, \u201cIn summary, war is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was quickly passed the mic to embattled FBI director Kash Patel<\/a>, played by Ansari.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter the attempted assassination of President Trump \u2014\u00a0another one \u2014\u00a0we conducted an investigation that could not have been more thorough. We dotted every T and bulged every Eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnsari-as-Patel also bragged about his job so far.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m a trailblazer. I\u2019m the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone said \u2018Indian people are smart, hardworking, intelligent,’\u201d Patel said. \u201cI prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incompetent and as confident as the whites.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t Watch the full cold open below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s episode of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d stared with a political cold open that brought Aziz Ansari to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[26771,4111,88,48296,1572,92],"class_list":["post-620798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-aziz-ansari","tag-colin-jost","tag-entertainment","tag-kash-patel","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620798","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=620798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}