SNL proves why it’s the best in the game with their Kash Patel impersonation by none other than Aziz Ansari
What could be better than a Donald Trump impersonation and a Pete Hegseth impersonation on SNL? Adding a Kash Patel impersonation to the mix. On May 2, 2026, Aziz Ansari debuted as the Director of the FBI alongside Colin Jost, playing Pete Hegseth.
While several moments had the audience in stitches, a specific scene from Ansari’s portrayal of Kash Patel during a mimicry of an FBI director’s address alongside Pete Hegseth is attracting the most attention online. In it, Ansari as Patel humorously criticizes his Indian heritage and claims that he is one of the few who isn’t doing a good job at his work despite being Indian, which makes him similar to the “whites” in many ways.
Aziz Ansari as Kash Patel is taking over the internet
On May 2, 2026, Aziz Ansari appeared as FBI director Kash Patel in a Saturday Night Live sketch dedicated to mimicking a press briefing on Iran alongside Colin Jost, who played Pete Hegseth. Shortly after Hegseth took the stage and addressed the press in front of him, he introduced Patel, who then began his speech by praising himself and emphasizing how he is the best at what he does, criticizing the media for focusing on the negative aspects of him and the Trump administration when they should be highlighting the positives.
While Aziz Ansari delivered many lines in his nearly monologue, the part that has drawn the most attention is where he talks about his Indian roots and admits how he’s not doing justice to them. His exact words in this part are, “I am a trailblazer. I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, and incredibly intelligent. I’ve proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites.”
Kash Patel answers burning questions about being locked out of email account
Many topics were covered during Aziz Ansari’s segment, where he played Kash Patel on Saturday Night Live. Among them was the claim that, according to an Atlantic article published on April 17, 2026, Kash Patel had supposedly panicked when he was temporarily unable to access his computer due to technical issues and believed he had been fired.
During a press conference shortly after the incident, when a reporter asked him to confirm if it was true, Patel denied the incident’s plausibility and stated it was false. However, his lawsuit against The Atlantic for publishing a “hit piece” on him mentioned that he was briefly logged out of his system. Ansari’s segment on SNL was a reenactment of this series of events.
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