This week’s Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live featured a rather off-field joke. Michael Che said: “Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for mayor and the world’s only white panther, has been endorsed by Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani only likes him because his poll numbers are between nine and eleven.” The joke about Sliwa was a reference to his distinctive headgear — not a spoiler for the upcoming Avengers movie (where one rumour claims that Ryan Gosling will play T’Challa’s white son and a Black Panther from another timeline). But it served as a reminder of how sidelined Sliwa has been between the Zohran wave and Cuomo’s attempted comeback Sliwa, 69, isn’t new to the rodeo. He founded the Guardian Angels in 1979 — a street-patrol crew born in the crime-ravaged Bronx — and spun

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