Mayor Eric Adams and a slew of New York pols had been lampooned on the a hundred and first Interior Circle dinner held on the Ziegfeld Ballroom Saturday night time – however Hizzoner had the final snicker.
The annual present, placed on by the Metropolis Corridor press corps, was dubbed “Beg Your Pardon,” because it centered round Mayor Adams’ authorized troubles and the assistance he received avoiding them from the Trump administration.
“I can’t stand most of you,” Adams joked to members of the media in his show-closing remarks.
“Thank you all for having me at Inner Circle tonight — my least favorite night of the year,” he ribbed.
The mayor took the chance to subject some pictures at different 2025 mayoral candidates — breaking out Trump-esque nicknames in his monologue together with “Scott Stranger” for perennial candidate Scott Stringer and “Brad Pander” for NYC Comptroller Brad Lander.
Adams additionally took intention at Andrew Cuomo and the unfounded rumors that the previous governor has pierced nipples.
“I wonder what else he has pierced,” the mayor stated whereas trying downwards, including, “Man I’m going to get in trouble tonight.”
Mayor Adams even had some enjoyable with a self-made entrance web page of The Put up — bearing a shirtless seaside image of himself accompanied with the headline “SEXY IN THE CITY: Inside mayor’s SPICY new PSA campaign.”
“I look forward to coming back to this for the next four years,” Adam stated on the finish of his bit.
Earlier than Adams had his probability to run the present, the press corps doled out heaping servings of roast to the newly minted Unbiased candidate for mayor.
“I turned my swagger into MAGA,” an actor enjoying Mayor Adams joked in a sketch in regards to the potential jurors who may need heard his corruption case, had the Division of Justice not agreed to drop it this yr.
That fake pool of jurors included actors enjoying the roles of former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, radio host John Catsimatides, and NY state rep Jenifer Rajkumar.
In one other act, Adams’ character misses your entire first act of the play as a consequence of a colonoscopy.
“What did they find up there,” Adams’ character requested upon waking.
“Looks like Tom Homan kept true to his word,” the physician responded, in a reference to the pinnacle of ICE telling Adams early this yr that he can be up the mayor’s “butt.”
Different butts of the joke included Governor Kathy Hochul, MTA CEO Janno Lieber and mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo.
Native leaders in attendance included NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, former mayor Invoice deBlasio, and former New York congressman Anthony Weiner.
