‘SNL’ cold open shows 'angry' Cuomo offering 'lame' apology for nursing-home scandal

"Saturday Night Live" called out New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican, in the show’s cold open this weekend in a segment where the politicians were supposed to apologize for their separate scandals.

Cuomo, played in New York tough-guy style by Staten Island-born cast member Pete Davidson, seemed a bit reluctant to take responsibility over allegations his administration withheld data about nursing home coronavirus deaths and that he threatened people who spoke out about it. While Davison as Cuomo grudgingly admitted that some nursing home deaths had been falsely counted as hospital deaths, he claimed the state was just "mov[ing] the bodies" in the same way he purported Disney World might if a guest died on the teacup ride but they pretended it happened in the parking lot.