The latest episode of “Saturday Night Live” kicked off with a politically charged cold open featuring Aziz Ansari.
The sketch started with Ashley Padilla’s Karoline Leavitt initiating a press briefing at the White House.
“You know I’m going on maternity leave, which is when you ask President Trump about maternity, and he says, ‘Leave,'” she quipped.
Leavitt then handed over the microphone to Pete Hegseth, portrayed this season by Colin Jost.
“I’m not going to apologize because I wear my religion on my sleeve, literally,” he declared. “I have a tattoo on my forearm of Jesus choking out Jimmy Kimmel.”
As he concluded his segment, Hegseth remarked, “In summary, war is awesome.”
The microphone was then passed to the embattled 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, in character as Patel, also took a moment to boast about his performance so far.
“I’m a trailblazer. I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone said ‘Indian people are smart, hardworking, intelligent,'” Patel stated. “I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incompetent and as confident as the whites.”
Watch the full cold open below.
