Even Governor Andrew Cuomo’s character on “Saturday Night Live” failed to adequately apologize for the scandal over the New York asylum death scandal.
The unapologetic governor was played by Pete Davidson in the last episode of the early morning comedy show, appearing alongside Aidy Bryant as Texas senator Ted Cruz.
The two Poles were supposed to apologize to Britney Spears of Chloe Fineman on a show called “Oops, You Did It Again” – with Cuomo’s notorious anger replacing any regrets.
Davidson’s Cuomo initially even tried to ignore the nursing home scandal altogether, pretending that he thought he was on the program for the “exciting” news that “the covered dinner is back in New York!”
After being warned by Spears, Cuomo de Davidson finally looked dejected as he admitted, “It’s because of … things in the nursing home.”
He then insisted that inaccurate reports of COVID-19 deaths of elderly people in New York were no different than “what happens at Disney World” – suggesting that theme parks “move bodies” to pretend that the people who died in toys actually passed out of the park.
“So we just did the Disney thing,” said the fake Cuomo innocently.
Pulled back by Spears, the fake Cuomo eventually did what the real one seemed unable to do and apologized, albeit in anger.
“Yes. I said I was sorry!” He barked – before he was furious at the mention of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s name.
“What did that b-h bird say about me?” he asked, saying he would “bury him in the highest tomb this city has ever seen”.
“I’m sorry, okay,” he said to Spears. “I get a little angry from time to time – and always.”
He even got angry when Cruz – who seemed happy with his own scandal of flying to Mexico during the blackout crisis in his state – tried to compare them as “both strong and misunderstood men”.
“Don’t associate with me. We are not the same. I am a man, you are a clown, ”said Cuomo de Davidson.
“If you mess with me, I will send you to a clown hospital. And when you die, I won’t count your body, ”he warned.
Cruz de Bryant entered the set of the show with beads in her hair and wearing a “Cancun Family Vacation 2021” T-shirt, carrying a tropical drink in one hand and pulling a suitcase on wheels with the other.
“Hello everyone. I’m not tanned – I cried a lot because of my Texan colleagues. And that’s why I drink in your honor, ”he said with a smile.
“I’m in a difficult situation, what I’m told is something that no one in Texas has,” Cruz de Bryant told Spears.
“I deeply regret my actions in the past few days … most flying United,” he joked. “I’m sorry – I’m really bad at human things,” he said of his stupid joke.
Asked about being dubbed a coward for leaving his home state during his historic crisis, the feigned Cruz said: “Yes, a ‘coward’ is actually the most beautiful word I have heard.”
Cuomo was not the only angry guest with Cruz trying to compare himself to them, with “Mandalorian” star Gina Carano – played by Cecily Strong – calling him “coach” for his “first class”.
“If you compare yourself to me, I will throw you in the most distant desert of Tatooine,” said the feigned Carano to Cruz – only for him to reply, “Anything to get out of Texas.”
Carano insisted that he had nothing to apologize for his postings on social media that compared the situation of modern conservatives with Jews in Nazi Germany.
“I would never have made that comparison with the Nazi if I knew that everyone would be a Nazi about it,” replied the feigned Carano.