{"id":238067,"date":"2026-05-03T05:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/aziz-ansari-plays-kash-patel-in-saturday-night-live-cold-open-explains-why-hes-a-trailblazer-should-be-celebrated-watch-now\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:51:19","slug":"aziz-ansari-plays-kash-patel-in-saturday-night-live-cold-open-explains-why-hes-a-trailblazer-should-be-celebrated-watch-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/aziz-ansari-plays-kash-patel-in-saturday-night-live-cold-open-explains-why-hes-a-trailblazer-should-be-celebrated-watch-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Aziz Ansari Plays Kash Patel in \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Cold Open, Explains Why He\u2019s a Trailblazer &amp; Should Be Celebrated \u2013 Watch Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"\/tags\/aziz-ansari\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Aziz Ansari<\/strong><\/a> made a surprise guest appearance on <em><a href=\"\/tags\/saturday-night-live\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Saturday Night Live<\/strong><\/a><\/em> on Saturday (May 2)!<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old comedian and actor popped up during the cold open, where he came on to portray FBI Director <a href=\"\/tags\/kash-patel\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Kash Patel<\/strong><\/a>, after being introduced by <a href=\"\/tags\/colin-jost\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Colin Jost<\/strong><\/a> as Pete Hegseth. <\/p>\n<p>In the clip, <strong>Aziz<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Kash<\/strong> talked about the recent shooting at the <em>White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner<\/em>, and he shared why he&#8217;s a &#8220;trailblazer&#8221; and should be celebrated more by the press. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAfter the attempted assassination of <strong>President Trump<\/strong> \u2014 another one! \u2014 we conducted an investigation that could not have been more thorough,\u201d the said in the beginning. \u201cWe dotted every \u2018T\u2019 and bulged every \u2018I\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those of you saying I\u2019m doing a bad job running the FBI, well, what if I told you this agency is only six weeks away from pinpointing the exact location of <strong>Osama bin Laden<\/strong>?\u201d he then asked of the reporters at the press briefing. \u201cYou guys should not be reporting the lies and the gossip. You should be reporting on the historic nature of my appointment. I am a trailblazer!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the first Indian person to suck at their job,\u201d he continued. \u201cEveryone says Indian people are smart, hard-working, incredibly intelligent. I prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/03\/olivia-rodrigo-debuts-new-song-begged-on-snl-debbie-harry-connor-storrie-introduce-musical-performances-videos\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/03\/olivia-rodrigo-debuts-new-song-begged-on-snl-debbie-harry-connor-storrie-introduce-musical-performances-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see who else made surprise appearances<\/a> during <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/03\/aziz-ansari-plays-kash-patel-in-saturday-night-live-cold-open-explains-why-hes-a-trailblazer-should-be-celebrated-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aziz Ansari Plays Kash Patel in &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; Cold Open, Explains Why He&#8217;s a Trailblazer &amp; Should Be Celebrated &#8211; Watch Now!<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/03\/aziz-ansari-plays-kash-patel-in-saturday-night-live-cold-open-explains-why-hes-a-trailblazer-should-be-celebrated-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Aziz Ansari made a surprise guest appearance on Saturday Night Live on Saturday (May 2)! The 43-year-old comedian and actor popped up during the cold open, where he came on to portray FBI Director Kash Patel, after being introduced by Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth. In the clip, Aziz&#8216;s Kash talked about the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}