Overview
- Miles Teller played Andrew Cuomo, with jokes nodding to his COVID tenure and sexual harassment allegations as he pitched himself as a quintessential New Yorker.
- Ramy Youssef portrayed frontrunner Zohran Mamdani with name‑mispronunciation gags, a TikTok‑style appeal, and promises of free health care, housing and Wi‑Fi undercut by the punchline that the answer would be no.
- Shane Gillis appeared as Curtis Sliwa, leaning into the candidate’s notorious anecdotal toughness, including riffs on being shot in a yellow cab.
- James Austin Johnson’s President Donald Trump interrupted the debate, declaring the race was about him, offering a “Big Mac with a hole” bagel line, and breaking into a Phantom of the Opera bit.
- Kenan Thompson moderated as NY1’s Errol Louis, Kam Patterson cameoed as Mayor Eric Adams with an awkward endorsement, and online reaction praised the timely sketch even as some viewers objected to the Trump inclusion, with recent coverage still describing Mamdani as leading in polls.