Overview
- Miles Teller played Andrew Cuomo, Ramy Youssef stepped in as Zohran Mamdani, and Shane Gillis appeared as Curtis Sliwa in a mock NY1 debate moderated by Kenan Thompson’s Errol Louis.
- James Austin Johnson’s Trump interrupted to declare the race was really about him, joked his bagel order was a “Big Mac with a hole in the middle,” and sang a bit of “The Music of the Night.”
- Youssef’s Mamdani leaned into a TikTok-ready persona and sweeping pledges—free health care, affordable housing, free Wi‑Fi—before undercutting them with the line that together voters would learn “the answer is no.”
- Kam Patterson cameoed as Eric Adams with a comic endorsement that mangled Mamdani’s name and visibly irked Cuomo in the sketch.
- Online reaction was mixed, with praise for hyper-local jokes and complaints about another Trump cameo, as coverage also noted Gillis’s prominent return after his 2019 dismissal from the show.