It’s beginning to feel like James Austin Johnson is contractually obligated to bring his Donald Trump impersonation to every “Saturday Night Live” cold open. How else can you explain a fairly solid (and locally targeted) satire of the increasingly unhinged New York City mayoral debates giving way to Trump singing showstoppers from “Phantom of the Opera?”

The “debate” pitted Andrew Cuomo (played by host Miles Teller) against Zohran Mamdani (Ramy Youssef) and Curtis Sliwa (Shane Gillis, who has no shortage of history with the sketch show). Kenan Thompson played local anchor Errol Louis, who he quipped was the “least famous person to be impersonated on ‘SNL.'” He poked fun at local chains like Gristedes supermarkets (Slogan: “Say, where’d you get that wet sandwich?”) and a notorious sculptur

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