Hesketh and Patal Iran press briefing

From Saturday Night Live

Aziz Ansari played FBI director Kash Patel on Saturday Night Live last night, declaring the agency chief as: ‘The first Indian person to suck at his job!’

‘Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent,’ he said as  Patel . ‘I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites."

He appeared in the ‘cold open’ sketch alongside  Ashley Padilla as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and  Colin Jost as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Published: 3 May 2026

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