Ziwe has discovered her newest iconic visitor: George Santos.
After teasing a collab with the expelled congressman, comic and celeb interviewer Ziwe launched her sit-down interview with Santos on YouTube on Monday morning.
Ziwe’s “ZNN” interview, a CNN spoof along with her personal Ziwe News Network, started with onscreen textual content saying “No congressman were paid in the making of this interview even though George asked three times.” She then listed civil rights icons and requested Santos to say what they meant to him. The listing included Marsha P. Johnson, James Baldwin, Harvey Milk and Bowen Yang’s “SNL” impression of Santos — which he stated deserves an EGOT.
When requested if he would need Yang to play him in HBO’s film about him, Santos stated “that movie is not ever going to happen. That book has no perspective of me or anybody close to me. It’s fucking fiction,” referring to Mark Chiusano’s novel “The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos.”
Santos, the Republican consultant who was faraway from workplace Dec. 1 after an ethics report accused him of breaking federal regulation, joined Ziwe after she wrote to him on X that he would “be an iconic guest.”
The scandal-ridden congressman from New York had 13 prison expenses leveraged towards him by the federal authorities, together with wire fraud, theft of public funds, cash laundering and making false statements to Congress. He was caught utilizing marketing campaign cash for private bills — together with on automobile funds, OnlyFans, make-up and designer clothes — and accused of deceptive Congress about his monetary circumstances on official disclosure statements.
Santos, the sixth member of the House ever to be expelled, was beneath intense public scrutiny earlier than he even took workplace because of his penchant for mendacity about his identification. He lied about the place he went to highschool and faculty, and the place he labored earlier than getting elected. He even lied about being Jewish, telling the New York Post after he was uncovered: “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
He took pictures at different politicians, saying “they’re all frauds. If you were to put them all under the same scrutiny I was under, you’d fucking vacate the whole goddamn building.” He listed Kevin McCarthy, Lindsay Graham, Bob “Gold Bar” Menendez and Dan Goldman as fellow alleged fraudsters.
He made a number of different cringe-inducing claims in Ziwe’s interview, like how he doesn’t “see color,” how “Gen Z loves Trump” and that he’ll “outlive each and every member of Congress.” He additionally weighed in on the probability of him becoming a member of “Dancing With the Stars” sooner or later — “I’ll pass.”
Ziwe, who climbed the comedy ladder at The Onion and “The Rundown With Robin Thede,” created a YouTube interview sequence titled “Baited With Ziwe,” wherein she humorously “baited” her white pals into saying racial or in any other case politically incorrect fake pas. The present moved to Instagram Live after which landed at Showtime within the type of her selection sequence “Ziwe,” which lasted two seasons and featured visitors together with Phoebe Bridgers, Bowen Yang, Fran Lebowitz, Julian Castro, Stacey Abrams, Chet Hanks, Emily Ratajkowski, Julia Fox, Michael Che and Drew Barrymore.
Watch Ziwe’s interview with Santos under.