Saturday Night Live’s cold open featured Aziz Ansari playing FBI director Kash Patel. During the event, Ashley Padilla as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced her maternity leave and Colin Jost as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took questions from reporters. Patel claimed that the FBI is only six weeks away from pinpointing the exact location of Osama bin Laden and that he is not the first Indian person to suck at their job. He also addressed reports of drinking and claimed that he has never been drunk or hungover on the job.