Posted 19 minutes agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret DownHere's How People Are Responding To "SNL" Dragging Zohran Mamdani And The 2025 NYC Mayoral DebateEverybody can't get it.by Mychal ThompsonBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLinkHot TopicðŸ"¥ Full coverage and conversation on Politics Saturday Night Live poked fun at the final debate before New York City's 2025 mayoral election. Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images, NBC / Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images On Nov. 1, SNL was hosted by Miles Teller with musical guest Brandi Carlile, and the featured cast kicked off the season's return with a hilarious parody of NYC's mayoral candidates during the episode's cold open. NBC / Rosalind O'Connor/NBC via Getty Images Miles was Andrew Cuomo, who ran for mayor as a Democrat but is now running as an Independent because he lost the primary. NBC / Hiroko Masuike-Pool / Getty Images Ramy Youssef portrayed Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. NBC / youtube.com / Hiroko Masuike-Pool / Getty Images BuzzFeed TrendingHot TopicLet's chat about all things PoliticsSee our Politics Discussions And Shane Gillis was a comedic version of the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa. NBC / youtube.com / Hiroko Masuike-Pool / Getty Images When Kenan Thompson, as moderator Errol Louis, asked, "Why would you want the worst job in the world?" the parodied candidates' answers left me speechless. NBC / youtube.com Miles as Cuomo said, "As we all know, as soon as you are elected mayor, everyone in the city immediately hates you. And in that way, I'm already one step ahead of the game." NBC / youtube.com Ramy as Mamdani promised voters free healthcare, Wi-Fi, and affordable housing before admitting, "As mayor, can I make that happen? I'm not sure yet. But together, we're going to find out â€" that the answer is no." NBC / youtube.com Then, just when things didn't seem ridiculous enough, James Austin Johnson's portrayal of President Donald Trump appeared. NBC / youtube.com The SNL cold open was another showcase of laugh-to-keep-yourself-from-crying satire, and a lot of people found the segment amusing. NBC / youtube.com One person said, "The guy they got for the trump impression is the most talented member they've had in a long while." NBC / youtube.com "No offence to SNL, the sketch is great, but the actual debate is even more humorous than this could ever be," another person said. NBC / youtube.com "Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa is somehow less crazy than Curtis Sliwa as Curtis Sliwa," one user wrote. NBC / youtube.com This user said the line about Trump taking a cognitive test "cracked me up." NBC / youtube.com "They could have just played the actual debate here and I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference tbh," another person wrote. NBC / youtube.com And finally, this person said what a lot of people were thinking. "The debate was so crazy it actually makes this skit not as crazy. I do love trump coming out to roast everyone though." NBC / youtube.com In my opinion, SNL's parody isn't too far off from the nonsense of the actual political theater we're experiencing in 2025. And with that, I'll drop one more scene from the cold open: NBC Watch the full cold open here: View this video on YouTube NBC / youtube.com