The real Harvey Epstein thought John Mulaney's SNL sketch was "ridiculously funny"
Don't worry; the real Epstein (not that one) doesn't want Manhattan to be called "Epstein's Island" either.
Fake Harvey Epstein and real Harvey Epstein (Image: Saturday Night Live/Harvey Epstein/YouTube)
“Hi, I’m Harvey Epstein, and I’m running for city council of New York City. This is a real thing,” a bald-capped John Mulaney opened a fake political ad on SNL this past weekend. It is, in fact, a very real thing, as many viewers who may not have been familiar with New York’s down-ballot races learned in the aftermath of the standout sketch. Just ask Harvey Epstein himself, the real New York State assemblyman and city council candidate that Mulaney was parodying. (That’s his real poster design too, by the way.) Apparently, Epstein (the real, presumably non-evil one) had no idea the sketch was happening and went to bed early. When he woke up on Sunday, he had “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of text messages telling him to watch it, he told The New York Times. “So I watched it and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s me. It was, like, ridiculously funny. I couldn’t stop laughing.”