Kamala Harris Visits SNL to Give Maya Rudolph Advice in Pre-Election Sketch
Presidential contender Kamala Harris just made a campaign stop at Studio 8H.
Vice President Harris dropped by this week’s Saturday Night Live, crossing paths with Maya Rudolph’s impersonation of her and giving her advice as the final leg of the campaign approaches.
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The sketch opened with James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump putting on a fluorescent sanitation worker vest and babbling to himself in exhaustion. Then we saw Rudolph’s Kamala Harris watching him on TV along with Andy Samberg’s Doug Emhoff and Jim Gaffigan’s Tim Walz. Emhoff excitedly reminded her that “Beyoncé opened for you” — “It’s almost like this is your destiny, child” — before Harris got out her phone to send out texts to “every single person in America.” (Yep, she writes them all personally.) Dana Carvey’s Joe Biden dropped by, too, to squint and ramble before Harris shooed him off stage.
But once Rudolph’s Harris was alone, she turned to the mirror, looking for advice. In the mirror, the real Kamala Harris appeared (to thunderous applause from the live audience), assuring SNL’s Kamala: “You’ve got this, because you can do something your opponent cannot do: You can open doors.” Rudolph unleashed her signature Kamala laugh in repsonse, and the real Harris had to ask: “I don’t really laugh like that, do I?”
Rudolph’s Kamala then asked the real Harris to “take my palm-ala” and listed off all the things they promise to do after the election is over, like “kick back in our pajama-las and watch a rom-com-ala.” But as stressful as this election season has been, the twin Harrises offered a message: “Keep Kamala and carry on-ala.”
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SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels actually said last month that neither Harris nor Trump would appear on the show ahead of this year’s presidential election “because of election laws and the equal time provisions.” Trump did host the show in 2015, prior to his initial presidential run. His opponent Hillary Clinton appeared on SNL that year as well, confronting Kate McKinnon’s impression of her.
Back in 2008, Sarah Palin dropped by SNL to come face-to-face with Tina Fey’s famous impersonation, just one month before the presidential election where she was John McCain’s running mate. But McCain and Palin lost that election to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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