{"id":2674071,"date":"2026-10-01T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-comedian-pete-davidson-calls-out-mamdani-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-right-before-the-mayor-walks-onstage\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:32:16","slug":"watch-comedian-pete-davidson-calls-out-mamdani-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-right-before-the-mayor-walks-onstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-comedian-pete-davidson-calls-out-mamdani-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-right-before-the-mayor-walks-onstage\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Comedian Pete Davidson Calls Out Mamdani on &#8216;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8217; &#8211; Right Before the Mayor Walks Onstage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-comedian-pete-davidson-calls-out-mamdani-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-right-before-the-mayor-walks-onstage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2674071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content includes a humorous exchange featuring comedian Pete Davidson, who appeared on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d and requested NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani fix the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). Davidson emphasized the longstanding and ineffective construction delays, provoking applause from the audience. Mamdani responded by outlining a multi-billion dollar, decade-long plan to repair the road without diverting traffic into neighborhoods. The conversation highlights frustrations with government inefficiency and corruption, illustrating a broader critique of big government\u2019s tendency toward waste and mismanagement.The article suggests that Davidson\u2019s stance aligns with conservative views criticizing the inefficiency and fraud ofen associated with large bureaucracies. It also reflects on political attitudes, mentioning figures like Charlie Kirk and Winston Churchill\u2019s shifting ideological positions, and hints at Davidson perhaps becoming more conservative over time. Additionally, the piece touches upon the importance of questioning government growth and the cultural nuances of political beliefs among young Americans.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Comedian Pete Davidson passed along a question that he wanted asked of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani while appearing shortly before him on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>And the question highlights the problem with big, inefficient, often corrupt government that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mamdani-celebrates-closing-budget-move-numbers-around-constituents-still-packing-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mamdani<\/a> only wants to make bigger under his socialist policies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jimmy-kimmel-will-agree-disneys-humiliating-demand-wants-keep-show-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kimmel<\/a>, who is filming his show in New York City this week, asked Davidson, a native of the Big Apple, if he had a question for the new mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, could he fix the f***ing BQE, please?\u201d Davidson answered.<\/p>\n<p>BQE is short for Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The audience responded with raucous applause and cheers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hit on something,\u201d Kimmel observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the loudest response I\u2019ve ever gotten,\u201d Davidson, a former \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d cast member, replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BQE has been under construction since before I was born. And here\u2019s my problem with it,\u201d he noted. \u201cThey\u2019re never doing anything. Someone\u2019s just standing there eating a sandwich or on the phone, and there\u2019s all these cones around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t know what mob front or whatever, who\u2019s getting money from whatever, but just fix it, please,\u201d Davidson added. (11:50).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jimmy-kimmel-faces-eye-popping-budget-cuts-keep-show-alive-learns-americans-just-dont-care-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kimmel<\/a> promised that he would ask Mamdani about it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PWd48Rt-k_4?si=url84vo3exly0u7Y&#038;start=671\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the host neared the end of his interview with the mayor, he said, \u201cOne more thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHit me,\u201d Mamdani confidently shot back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPete Davidson wants to know what\u2019s going on in the BQE,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cHe says he drives by it and he sees nobody doing anything. He said it\u2019s been like since before he was born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani replied, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna be putting a multibillion-dollar plan to actually repair the part the city owns, which is the part that is currently the most at risk, and that\u2019s going to be proceeding over the next 10 years. Full safety. No diversion of traffic into local neighborhoods and actually bring it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel wryly responded, \u201cSo you\u2019re saying Pete\u2019s[[<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-pete-davidson-baby-daughter-scottie-11873170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9-month-old]<\/a> daughter will also be complaining about this,\u201d drawing laughter from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9dSLJHS2Uns?si=HdkRvCTqE0ACeYW6&#038;start=654\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nice to see Kimmel actually getting back to some good-natured political humor and away from his constant Trump Derangement Syndrome-fueled stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson, who <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/features\/pete-davidson-interview-ariana-grande-kim-kardashian-fatherhood-1236877622\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supported Hillary Clinton<\/a> over Donald Trump in 2016 and still has a tattoo of her on his leg, actually highlighted something conservatives would agree with: big government is inherently inefficient at best, and enables <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-vances-task-force-purges-760000-names-obamacare-rolls-uncovering-rampant-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rampant fraud<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/massachusetts-mayor-charged-alleged-1500000-pandemic-era-loan-fraud-money-laundering-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corruption<\/a> at worst.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote about in my book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/WE-HOLD-THESE-TRUTHS-Transform\/dp\/B0H6GH4VPN\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Hold These Truths<\/a>,\u201d Charlie Kirk would have had a heyday with Mamdani\u2019s exhortation during his inaugural address in January for Americans to join New Yorkers in replacing \u201cthe frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirk told me during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/warning-charlie-kirk-gave-back-2020-coming-true-now-within-democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 interview<\/a> with The Western Journal that he found two questions to be effective in disabusing younger Americans of their starry-eyed view of socialism. \u201cYou ask the question to a student, \u2018Do you trust the government?\u2019 Traditionally, their answer will be, \u2018No, I don\u2019t trust the government. The government\u2019s horrible,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou ask the next question, \u2018Then why do you want to make government bigger?\u2019 \u2018Well, I don\u2019t want to make government bigger,\u2019\u201d is the normal response, Kirk explained. \u201cThen you\u2019re not a socialist,\u201d he informed the person. It took him about 15 seconds for the entire back-and-forth.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pete-davidson-smacks-heckler-called-racist-using-term-master-bedroom-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Davidson<\/a> is on his way to becoming more conservative.<\/p>\n<p>As Winston Churchill, who <a href=\"https:\/\/winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu\/changing-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flipped from conservative to liberal<\/a> and back to conservative during his political career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/did-winston-churchill-really-say-that-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reputedly said<\/a>, \u201cIf you\u2019re not a liberal when you\u2019re 25, you have no heart. If you\u2019re not a conservative by the time you\u2019re 35, you have no brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I would add the caveat: Thankfully, many younger Americans discover their political brains earlier than their 30s.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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