Mayor Eric Adams and a slew of New York pols were lampooned at the 101st Inner Circle dinner held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom Saturday night – but Hizzoner had the last laugh.
The annual show, put on by the City Hall press corps, was dubbed “Beg Your Pardon,” as it centered around Mayor Adams’ legal troubles and the help he got 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 opportunity to issue some shots at other 2025 mayoral candidates — breaking out Trump-esque nicknames in his monologue including “Scott Stranger” for perennial candidate Scott Stringer and “Brad Pander” for NYC Comptroller Brad Lander.
Adams also took aim at Andrew Cuomo and the unfounded rumors that the former governor has pierced nipples.
“I wonder what else he has pierced,” the mayor said while looking downwards, adding, “Man I’m going to get in trouble tonight.”
Mayor Adams even had some fun with a self-made front page of The Post — bearing a shirtless beach picture of himself accompanied with the headline “SEXY IN THE CITY: Inside mayor’s SPICY new PSA campaign.”
Before Adams had his chance to run the show, the press corps doled out heaping servings of roast to the newly minted Independent candidate for mayor.
“I turned my swagger into MAGA,” an actor playing Mayor Adams joked in a sketch about the potential jurors who might have heard his corruption case, had the Department of Justice not agreed to drop it this year.
That pretend pool of jurors included actors playing the roles of former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, radio host John Catsimatides, and NY state rep Jenifer Rajkumar.
In another act, Adams’ character misses the entire first act of the play due to a colonoscopy.
“What did they find up there,” Adams’ character asked upon waking.
“Looks like Tom Homan kept true to his word,” the doctor responded, in a reference to the head of ICE telling Adams early this year that he would be up the mayor’s “butt.”
Other butts of the joke included Governor Kathy Hochul, MTA CEO Janno Lieber and mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo.
Local leaders in attendance included NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, former mayor Bill deBlasio, and former New York congressman Anthony Weiner.
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