Aziz Ansari returns to “SNL” to skewer FBI director Kash Patel: 'I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job'
Aziz Ansari returns to “SNL” to skewer FBI director Kash Patel: 'I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job'
Shania RussellSun, May 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM UTC
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Aziz Ansari as Kash Patel on 'SNL'Credit: NBCKey Points -
Aziz Ansari made a Saturday Night Live cameo, portraying FBI director Kash Patel in the May 2 cold open.
The mock press conference saw Patel address the alleged gunman who stormed the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
"I’m a trailblazer," Patel declared in the sketch. "I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job."
Saturday Night Live just added a familiar face to the president's faux administration.
Parks and Rec alum Aziz Ansari has joined the fray as FBI director Kash Patel, just in time to address a major security incident: last week's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, which saw a gunman allegedly attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump.
First up to the podium was Ashley Padilla as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who announced, "As some of you know, I'm about to go on maternity leave. That's when you tell President Trump about your maternity and he says, 'Leave.'"
She then turned things over to Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth who delivered a series of inflammatory remarks, ending with, "In summary, war is awesome!" Hegseth then revealed that another figure would be stepping up to the podium, introducing the speaker as someone who wanted to "say hello before he's almost certainly fired."
Enter Ansari's Kash Patel. "What up? What up?," Patel declared. "It's K-dot, a.k.a. Kash with a K a.k.a. the most effective FBI director this country has ever had, Kash Patel."
Kash Patel; Aziz Ansari on 'SNL'Credit: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images; NBC
He went on to claim that the FBI has conducted a thorough investigation into the attempt on the president's life before telling the room full of reporters, "You guys should not be reporting the lies and the gossip. You should be reporting on the historic nature of my appointment. I’m a trailblazer: I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job."
He continued, "Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites."
Patel then opened the floor for questions, which he received with the same overly-casual attitude. When one of the journalists asked if he was concerned about Trump being angry at him, Patel replied, "Hell, no! President Trump loves me. Everybody loves me."
He added, "Even the Correspondents’ Dinner shooter said, 'Kill everyone, but Mr. Patel.' You get a shout-out like that in a psycho’s manifesto, you must be doing something right."
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Aziz Ansari and Colin Jost on 'SNL'Credit: NBC
When another reporter pressed Patel about rumors that he drinks excessively — an allegation made in a new report from The Atlantic — the FBI director took it in stride… and began listing off eerily specific scenarios.
"Let me be clear: this FBI director has never been drunk or hungover on the job," he began. "This FBI director has never used taxpayer dollars to take a private jet to fly him and his girlfriend to three different Buffalo Wild Wings across the country to see if they could taste the difference."
He added, "And this FBI director has definitely not stood on top of a couch at the VIP room of Tao Nightclub and Asian Bistro and shouted, ‘Who wants the nuclear codes?! JK, I ain't got 'em!'"
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The real Patel threatened to sue the Atlantic over the story published last month, which detailed his alleged heavy drinking and how members of his security detail have on multiple occasions had difficulty waking him.
Patel responded to the report with an X post on his official FBI account addressed to what he called "the fake news" over "the hit piece lies you write about me."
The cold open also saw reporters also confront SNL's Patel about allegations that he once had a "freakout" after he couldn't log into an internal computer system — a claim also made in the Atlantic report.
"That’s just more lies," Ansari's Patel insisted. "I’ve always been able to log into my e-mail, except for a brief 36-hour period of time when I forgot I had changed my password to CashMeOutside69."
Watch Ansari debut his portrayal of Patel in the cold open clip above.
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