Comedian Shane Gillis made a surprise appearance in the latest Saturday Night Live, playing Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at a parody NYC mayoral debate.
“I’m thrilled to be here,” Gillis’ Sliwa said in his opening statement, “And not getting shot in the back of a yellow cab five times by the Gottis and Gambinos as I was famously in 1992, 1993, and 1994.”
Sliwa continued, “But I’m the right choice to be your next mayor. No offense to my opponents, Mr. Cuomo and—I believe I’m saying this right—Zoltar Rob Zombie?”
Gillis was hired as a cast member for SNL in 2019, only to be quickly fired after backlash from resurfaced racist jokes and comments he made on his podcast over the years.
Although Gillis returned to host the show twice in the years since, his reputation as a right-wing comic often bristled some SNL viewers, who might be surprised to see him return to make fun of the only Republican in the NYC mayoral race.
“As you know, my dad was brutally kidnapped and tied to the tracks of the cyclone at Coney Island,” Gillis’ Sliwa said at one point, adding, “I’m sorry, what was your question?”
When asked what his go-to bagel order was, Sliwa answered, “As you know, in 1982 I had my penis cut off and fed to me by the Yakuza.”
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