City Council Hopeful Harvey Epstein Responds To 'SNL' Skit About Him
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Comedian John Mulaney poked fun at the assemblymember's unfortunate name.
New York Assemblymember Harvey Epstein and New York City Council hopeful joked about the “Saturday Night Live” skit poking fun at Epstein’s name.
“I agree with John [Mulaney]… let’s not call it Epstein’s Island,” Epstein wrote on social media, referring to a joke in the skit.
Mulaney, who played Epstein in the skit, joked about the politician sharing a name with Harvey Weinstein, the movie producer and convicted sex offender, and Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 awaiting trial for sex trafficking minors.
“Look. Is my name ideal?” Mulaney, playing Harvey Epstein in the skit asks. “Of course not. I share names with two of the most notorious sex perverts of all time. You think I don’t know that?”
The skit, which is made to seem like an ad for Harvey Epstein, attempts to show that he is a different person than Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, while New Yorkers say they are voting for him because “everyone deserves a second chance” and “he knows a lot of famous people.”
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