NBC’s 51st season of Saturday Night Live is off to a rough start. Last week, they made fun of J.K. Rowling for daring to oppose the left on transgenderism. This week, cast member Sarah Sherman joined the Weekend Update segment to play the role of Rhonda LaCenzo, a paranoid and Islamophobic critic of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Unsaid throughout the skit was that Sherman herself has campaigned for Mamdani.
Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che played the role of the straight newsman, “Well, thanks for being here. I got to say, Rhonda, you have very panicked energy already.”
Not even a week after Mamdani, a man who has previously claimed he wants to globalize the Intifada, marked the second anniversary of October 7 by saying the real story is how horrible Israel is, Sherman’s character explained, “Oh, me? Why would I be panicked? Oh, I'm just thrilled that our city is about to be taken over by my favorite type of person, bum-bum-bum-a-bum, hooray, a hipster jihadist.”
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