SNL lost Kash Patel because of Loux Fast

This week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” had a political cold open that brought Aziz Ansari to the sketch show.

The segment began with Ashley Padilla’s Karoline Leavitt launching a press conference at the White House.

“You know I’m going on maternity leave, and that’s when you ask President Trump about maternity leave, and he says, ‘Go away,’” she snapped.

Leavitt quickly gave the microphone to Pete Hegseth, played this season by Colin Jost.

“I’m not going to apologize for literally wearing my religion on my sleeve,” he said. “I have a tattoo on my forearm of Jesus choking Jimmy Kimmel.”

Near the end of his time at the microphone, Hegseth said, “In short, war is great.”

He was quickly passed on the microphone to controversial FBI director Kash Patel, played by Ansari.

“After the attempted assassination of President Trump – another one – we conducted an investigation that could not have been more thorough. We dotted every T and bulged every eye.”

Ansari-as-Patel also boasted about his work so far.

“I am a pioneer. I am the first Indian person to be bad at his job. Everyone said, ‘Indian people are smart, hardworking and intelligent,'” Patel said. “I prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incompetent and self-confident as white people.”

Watch the full cold opening below.