Mayor Zohran Mamdani almost made it onto New York’s most famed sketch show where the notably inexperienced politician could have shown off his improv skills somewhere other than City Hall.

Sources tell Page Six that Mamdani’s camp pitched him to appear on “Saturday Night Live,” during his campaign. But one source tells us that head honcho Lorne Michaels didn’t bite.

“Mamdani was pitched, but ultimately for creative reasons, they went with comedians instead,” a source tells Page Six.

Ramy Youssef ultimately wound up playing the democratic socialist in a sketch on Nov. 1, 2025 about the NYC mayoral debate. It also featured Miles Teller as former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and comic Shane Gillis as Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.

Mamdani then posted clips and video of himself laughing with Yussef about the uncanny resemblance on a FaceTime while the comic was still in costume.

“Live from New York’ I got roasted by,” Mamdani posted on his social media.

“There were conversations about having Sliwa, Cuomo and Mamdani on, not necessarily together,” says a source. “There are always conversations about having anyone who is in the news on.”

Michaels’ door still seems open for a real-life, off-air cameo.

A source close to the SNL big told us that “Lorne is happy to meet with Mayor Mamdani.”

We hear Mamdani has not been pitched since he was elected, though his team could try and float him for musical guest. His 2010’s era rap career as Mr. Cardamom never panned out, with songs including one where he praised convicted terror-funding group the Holy Land Five.

Longtime NYC mayor Ed Koch hosted the show in 1983 and co-hosted again in May 1984. Rudy Giuliani hosted in November 1997 and appeared following the attacks on 9/11.

Donald Trump has also hosted the show twice. Once at the height of “The Apprentice” in 2004 and again in November 2015 when he was running for his first term as president.

We hear the days of having politicians pop up for cameos — like Kamala Harris showing up while being impersonated by Maya Rudolph or Hillary Clinton with Kate McKinnon — could now be more difficult due to a new FCC Equal Time Rule, which requires broadcast stations to give equal opportunities to candidates for the same office.

The rule was put into place Jan. 21, 2026, after Mamdani was elected into office in November.

An SNL spokesperson declined to comment on guestbooking. Mamdani’s spokesperson did not get back to us.

Savannah Guthrie promised not to “fall apart” for the sake of her two children during her “Today” show interview on the disappearance of mom Nancy Guthrie.

“I will do it for my kids,” the journalist told Hoda Kotb during the emotional sitdown Friday, referencing daughter Vale, 11, and son Charles, 9.

Savannah, who shares the little ones with husband Michael Feldman, added, “I will not let whoever did this take my children’s mom away.”

The 54-year-old went on to say Nancy modeled the same strength when Savannah’s dad, Charles, died when the NBC personality was a teenager.

“She taught me,” Savannah explained. “I saw her grief, I saw her world shatter — but I saw her get up, saw her love, saw her faith.

“She taught all of us,” the “crushed” and “heartbroken” former attorney continued, referencing brother Camron Guthrie and sister Annie Guthrie. “I may not do it as well as her, but will do it.”

Savannah’s conversation with Kotb comes nearly two months after her 84-year-old mom was kidnapped from her Arizona home on Jan. 31.

The TV personality, who discussed her April 6 “Today” show return elsewhere in the interview, sobbed while sharing how she was in “agony” over Nancy’s disappearance in the portion that aired Thursday.

“I wake up every night in the middle of the night, every night, and in the darkness, I imagine her terror, and it is unthinkable,” Savannah said. “But those thoughts demand to be thought, and I will not hide my face.”

She learned on Feb. 1 that Nancy was missing when she received a call from Annie.

“I said, ‘Is everything OK?’ And she said, ‘No.’ She said, ‘Mom’s missing,’” Savannah recalled. “And I said, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ She said, ‘She’s gone.’”

The NBC personality explained that she and Annie thought their mom may have had “some kind of medical episode in the night,” describing how the “back doors were propped open.”

However, the matriarch’s cell phone and purse remained in the home.

Savannah, additionally, called out the “cruel” allegations that her family was involved in Nancy’s disappearance.

She will “never understand” the speculation, adding that it “piles pain upon pain” as she fiercely defended Camron and Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni.

Nancy was reported missing after she didn’t attend church service on Feb. 1.

Surveillance footage of a masked and armed person outside of Nancy’s front door the night she was abducted was later released by the FBI.

Savannah and her siblings have accepted the possibility that their mom might be dead, but have offered $1 million for her return.

Antonio Banderas gave up his ritzy Hollywood lifestyle and has zero regrets almost 10 years later.

The actor, 65, moved back to his home town — Málaga, Spain — back in 2017. Banderas said it was his near-fatal heart attack that triggered his big move.

“Mine was a really serious warning,” he said of the heart attack in an interview with the Times published Wednesday. “It changed the way I look at life.”

The outlet noted that prior to his major health scare, Banderas was living between the US and the UK, and had a mansion in Cobham, Surrey.

The “Desperado” star then immediately quit smoking, sold his private jet, returned to Málaga and bought a theatre.

“Faced with death, it made me look back and realize that I am, in fact, a theatre actor,” he explained.

Banderas now lives in a flat with his longtime girlfriend, Nicole Kimpel, and owns multiple restaurants. But his not-for-profit theatre, Teatro del Soho, is his greatest passion.

“I have never been so happy,” he noted.

Banderas also reflected on how he became a superstar in Hollywood, sharing that his insecurities about English not being his first language went away after he married his now ex-wife, Melanie Griffith. The two divorced in 2015 after 18 years of marriage.

He shared that while he was originally told that as a Spaniard, he could only play “the bad guys” in films, he proved them wrong with 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro.”

“The problem was a few years later I had a mask, hat, sword and cape and the bad guy was Captain Love, who was blond and had blue eyes,” he said.

He continued, “Even more important is [his 2011 film] ‘Puss in Boots,’ because it’s for young kids. They see a cat that has a Spanish, even an Andalusian accent and he’s a good guy.”

Banderas spoke to Page Six in December 2022, and said his heart attack was “one of the best things” that ever happened to him.

“I realized that it probably was one of the best things that ever happened in my life because the things that were not important and I was worried every day about them, meaningless,” he explained.

He told us that after his near-death experience, he began to detach from “things that I thought were important before but weren’t really.”

“I was like, why am I worried about that if I’m going to die?” he recalled. “I knew always [that I was going to die], but now I know. I’ve seen it right here.”