NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch showed off her sense of humor at Thursday night's Al Smith Dinner - leaving New York's great and good in stitches with a series of well-timed cracks about far-left demands that Mayor Zohran Mamdani remove her as NYC's top cop.

 There's a lot of talk these days that the mayor's friends don't like me,  Tisch set up an audience that included Hizzoner before zinging:  That's simply not true - President Trump and I get along great! 

The commissioner briefly turned serious by acknowledging that  things got a little hot for me this week  before asking the high-rolling audience:  Just in case, anybody hiring? 

Elsewhere in her remarks, the third-generation member of the Loews Corporation dynasty claimed that Mamdani had told her last year he was keeping her on as boss of the boys and girls in blue because  Jessie, I ran on taxing the rich, you're going to need a job. 

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Reverend Ronald Hicks, Archbishop of New York, attend the 81st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. REUTERS

Tisch, 45, was honored with the Happy Warrior Award at the annual dinner hosted by the Archdiocese of New York, renowned as a chance for politicians to take off their partisan armor and rib each other in the name of supporting the city's needy.

 This dinner is an opportunity to set aside our religious and political differences,  she said.  Which is wonderful, because I'm a Jewish police commissioner working for a Muslim mayor, and tonight I'm being honored by the Catholic Church. God Bless America. 

 It's been delightful sitting next to you today at this dinner,  Archbishop Ronald Hicks, presiding over his first Al Smith Dinner, told Tisch in presenting the award.  You are our Happy Warrior. And I just want to thank you, and also to thank your true service of continuing your family's legacy of public service. Thank you. 

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani applauds NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, not pictured, at the 81st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinn
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