Joe Exotic responds to SNL impersonation... and focused on getting pardon and cabinet position from Trump

Joe Exotic is looking to parlay a caller parody of him connected Saturday Night Live into state and - a presumption connected President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet.

The one-time Oklahoma zookeeper, 61, told TMZ Tuesday that helium wasn't enactment disconnected by Bowen Yang playing him during the Weekend Update segment, and thinks helium did good with the vocal impression.

The Garden City, Kansas-born media property said helium felt Yang's show connected the NBC assortment amusement was 'much better' than that of John Cameron Mitchell successful the 2022 Peacock play Joe vs Carole.

Exotic, whose communicative was told successful the deed 2020 Netflix doc Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, told the outlet a counsellor successful the situation he's held him told him the 'world is talking about' him aft helium was spoofed connected the show.

In the sketch connected the show, Yang's Exotic asked to beryllium appointed arsenic the Federal Fish and Wildlife manager successful the incoming administration.

He told the outlet that different inmates astatine the situation he's being held successful woke him from a nap to fto him cognize astir the SNL sketch.  

Exotic, whose existent sanction is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced successful January 2020 successful his native Oklahoma to 22 years successful custody successful transportation with a 2017 murder-for-hire crippled of his concern archival Carole Baskin.

Authorities said Exotic successful December 2017 attempted to bribe an FBI cause to execution Baskin, and was recorded saying, 'Just similar travel her into a promenade parking batch and conscionable headdress her and thrust off.'

Exotic was besides convicted successful transportation with galore wildlife instrumentality violations successful the deaths of 5 tigers, and infractions of the Endangered Species Act.

Exotic told TMZ that helium hoped the SNL skit would assistance bring consciousness of his concern to Trump's attention, and leads to his pardoning and a 'genuine petition to beryllium appointed to the cabinet.'

Exotic told the outlet helium believes Trump's lawyer wide prime Matt Gaetz could marque things happen.

Gaetz said during an April 2022 lawsuit successful Florida that helium 'would pardon' Exotic if helium was elected president.

'That is the grade of the committedness I tin make,' Gaetz told Exotic's lawyer Autumn Beck Blackledge in a YouTube clip, adding that helium had received letters from Exotic successful the past.

KOCO reported Tuesday Exotic has penned different missive to Gaetz, who resigned from his legislature station successful Florida aft Trump nominated him for the high-profile presumption past week.

Exotic successful the missive congratulated Gaetz connected the appointment; and told him helium is guiltless of the charges helium was convicted on.

'You volition person the powerfulness to close this oregon astatine slightest urge to President Trump to close this successful January of 2025,' Exotic said successful the letter, according to the station, which noted that lone Trump would beryllium capable to instrumentality the pardon.

He besides asked for a enactment presumption with the Fish and Wildlife Service aft his pardon; and said helium would enlighten Congress with grounds astir 'what is truly going connected successful the American situation system' years into his sentence.

In September of 2020, Exotic taxable to authorities a 257-page study petition to the U.S. Department of Justice for his pardon from Trump during his archetypal term.

'Joseph is scheduled to beryllium released from (Bureau of Prisons) custody successful 2037; however, with his comprised health, helium volition apt dice successful prison,' his lawyers said successful tribunal docs. 

Exotic successful the petition asked for 'a pardon to close the injustices helium has experienced and to person the accidental to instrumentality to providing meaningful contributions to his community.'