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Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Evening Dwell,” making a shock cease in the course of the present’s final episode earlier than Election Day to offer her fictional self some recommendation forward of the presidential election. “You bought this,” Harris informed her “SNL” alter ego, Maya Rudolph.
The chilly open began with a spoof of CNN’s “The Supply with Kaitlan Collins” exhibiting viewers a parodied Trump rally earlier than chopping to a shot backstage of a fictional Harris occasion in Philadelphia.
After Andy Samberg, enjoying second gentleman Doug Emhoff, left the set, Rudolph walked over to sit down at a dressing-room desk and mused, “I simply, I want I may discuss to somebody who’s been in my footwear, you already know, a Black, South Asian girl working for president, ideally from the Bay Space.”
Rudolph – who has performed the vp a number of instances this fall on Saturday Evening Dwell, then sat throughout from the real-life Harris, and the 2 girls have been dressed and styled practically identically. Rudolph first performed Harris in 2019 in a Democratic major debate skit.
“You and me each, sister,” the vp responded.
“It’s good to see you, Kamala, and I’m simply right here to remind you you bought this as a result of you are able to do one thing your opponent can’t do. You may open doorways,” the vp mentioned by way of a set piece designed to seem like a mirror.
At one level, Rudolph satirized the vp’s chortle, to which the vp responded, “I don’t actually chortle like that, do I?”
“Just a little bit,” Rudolph responded.
Quite a few solid members and actors appeared earlier than the vp made her shock cease, together with Samberg; Jim Gaffigan as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz; and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden.
Harris’ look, lower than three days earlier than Election Day, aligns with the marketing campaign’s media blitz of current weeks, which goals to succeed in voters the place they’re — together with friendlier interviews with Alex Cooper of “Call Her Daddy” and radio character Charlemagne Tha God — as she stays in a lifeless warmth race with former President Donald Trump.
Saturday’s present was hosted by comic John Mulaney, who performed President Joe Biden throughout a earlier look, alongside musical visitor Chappell Roan, who previously came under fire for waffling on who she would vote for earlier than finally saying she is going to solid a poll for Harris.
“SNL” has lengthy waded into politics, lampooning occasions starting from White Home briefings to presidential debates. It kicked off its 50th season in September with a sketch on marketing campaign rallies held by Harris and Trump.
And whereas impersonators play political figures on the present, politicians themselves make uncommon appearances. Saturday’s present, although, additionally featured Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, who’s up for reelection this yr. He appeared in a sketch of a faux present referred to as “What’s the Identify?” In the course of the phase, Kaine appeared and requested the contestants to determine him.
“Hello, I used to be Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential working mate,” Kaine says. “On the time you mentioned it was a very powerful election in American historical past, and that democracy was on the road. It’s been lower than eight years. What’s my title?”
Mulaney, showing as a contestant on the present, couldn’t reply the query accurately.
As a part of his 2016 marketing campaign, Trump — who first made an look on the present earlier than getting into politics — delivered a monologue alongside two impersonators. The looks drew protests over anti-immigrant feedback he made round that point. His then-opponent, Clinton, additionally made an look in a separate episode as a bartender.
Former President Barack Obama additionally made a cameo as a candidate in the course of the 2008 marketing campaign cycle.