Aziz Ansari plays Kash Patel and denies that he drinks
This week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” started with 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.
“As some of you know, I’m about to go on maternity leave. Then you tell President Trump about your pregnancy, and he says, ‘Go away,'” she said.
Leavitt quickly gave the microphone to Colin Jost’s Pete Hegseth.
“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 then offered the stage to the controversial FBI director Kash Patel, played by Ansari.
“After the attempted assassination of President Trump – another one — we conducted an investigation that couldn’t have been more thorough. We have dotted every i and crossed every i and bulged every eye,” Patel said. “And for those of you who say I’m doing a bad job running the FBI, what if I told you that this agency is just six weeks away from pinpointing Osama bin Laden’s exact location?”
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 says, ‘Indian people are smart, hardworking and incredibly intelligent,'” Patel said. “I prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as whites.”
The sketch ends with Hegseth and Patel both vehemently denying reports of their drinking.
Watch the full cold opening below.
