SNL Video: Friendly VP Debate Stresses Out Kamala Harris — ‘Why Are They Vibing?!’
This week on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, a stressed-out Kamala Harris nearly chose Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story over watching her running mate trade niceties with JD Vance during the vice presidential debate.
With Heidi Gardner and Chloe Fineman playing moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan, this week’s cold open saw Harris (Maya Rudolph) and her “GRILF” husband Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg, who also starred in a new digital short) sit down at home to check out Tim Walz’s debate with Vance.
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But when Jim Gaffigan’s Walz wasn’t scribbling furiously at his podium (to catch up on grading student papers), he was claiming to be “friends with school shooters” (à la the real Walz’s verbal hiccup this past Tuesday night).
Even milquetoast Doug had to admit that his missus’ running mate had people on edge: “I’m in my nice guys group chat with Josh Gad and Jason Kelce, and the mood is dark.”
Bowen Yang’s Vance was suitably dodgy with answers, while Jim Gaffigan’s Walz coughed up a whole new explanation for the Tiananmen Square mix-up: “So, I think what happened is I went to EPCOT…,” he offered, shrugging: “I’m a knucklehead!”
But what set Harris over-the-edge, smashing the wine glass in her hand, was seeing Walz and Vance find common ground on issues, as “Take My Breath Away’ washed over the scene: “Why are they vibing?!”
President Joe Biden (Dana Carvey) eventually wandered into the Harris-Emhoff living room, waving a drippy ice cream cone around and on-and-onning about how veeps don’t really matter in the scheme of things.
“Who the hell was Obama’s VP?” he asked. “Nobody knows!”
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