#NYC comedian remixes Gov. Cuomo’s outdoor dining requirement

A comedian-musician seized on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s distinctive speaking cadence — by setting one of his coronavirus press conferences to song.

NYC comedian Brooks Allison remixed Cuomo’s defense of his strict food-with-drinks requirement over guitar, bass and drums, with the instruments mirroring the executive’s sometimes-musical, sometimes-monotonous cadences.

“We opened outdoor dining,” Cuomo says at the beginning of the song, which Allison posted in an Instagram video on Saturday.

“Dining is you go with you friends, you sit at a table, you stay at the table and you only connect with… dining,” Cuomo says, at which point the beat drops and the word “dining” repeats eight times.

The song goes out on a breakdown using clips of Cuomo breaking down the differences between a “chicken wing” and “sandwiches.”

Cuomo’s rules mandate that bars and restaurants must serve “substantial” food in order to also serve alcohol.

Some restaurants had taken to selling “Cuomo chips” to meet the original requirement, which has been on the books since 1964.

On Thursday, Cuomo said chips and even chicken wings don’t cut it.

“To be a bar, you had to have food available — soups, sandwiches, etc. More than just hors d’oeuvres, chicken wings,” he said, in the original clip Allison remixed.

“You had to have some substantive food — the lowest level of substantive food were sandwiches.”