Why ‘SNL’ Alum Is Going All-In on Trump’s ‘Stupidest’ FBI Director

Photo Illustration by The Daily / Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Netflix Comedian Nimesh Patel is shocked that FBI director Kash Patel still has a job.

“Come on, bro,” the former Saturday Night Live writer, 40, said about Kash , 46, on Obsessed: The Podcast .

“You could be so much better than you are.

But you’re not.” Patel dedicates part of his Sept.

Netflix stand-up special, Buy the Dip, to slamming the unhinged FBI director who shares his last name.

Patel was the first Indian writer on SNL , which he joined for one season in 2018.

He earned an Emmy nomination for his work on the show.

Patel also wrote jokes for Hasan Minhaj, 40, for the 2017 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and has worked closely with Chris Rock , 61.

Buy the Dip is his debut Netflix special.

In Buy the Dip , Patel says, “Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel is the first Indian director of the FBI, and that means something.

It means he’s also the last Indian director of the FBI.” Patel was the “first and last Indian writer on SNL, ” he told Obsessed , so he can “relate to the pressures of being the first” that Kash must experience.

Even so, Kash’s incompetence “blows my mind,” he said.

Though he’s surprised about Kash’s relative longevity, Patel has a theory about why President Donald Trump, 80, has let him stay.

Amid the revolving door of hiring and firing in Trump’s administration, Kash seems like a bizarre choice for a Trump-appointed mainstay.