On the tail finish of an arduous, hotly contested presidential election marketing campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris managed to have the final snigger. On “Saturday Night Live,” that’s.
Showing within the episode’s chilly open because the mirror picture of Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee reassured herself: “You can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors.”
The sketch, which centered on dueling rallies by Harris and former President Trump (James Austin Johnson), provided a comic book compendium of current occasions from the path, with references to Trump’s look using in a rubbish truck and President Biden’s tendency to go off script in entrance of reporters.
Maya Rudolph, left, and Kamala Harris through the “SNL” chilly open.
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After conferring with Biden (Dana Carvey), operating mate Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan) and husband Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg) backstage, the vp requested for a second alone. “I wish I could talk to someone who’s been in my shoes,” Rudolph’s character mentioned, earlier than turning to her reflection within the self-importance. The true Harris, who emerged to an prolonged ovation from the reside studio viewers, replied in form: “You and me both, sista.”
Within the change with Rudolph, Harris additionally promised to “end the dramala” of the marketing campaign and “keep calm-ala and carry on-ala.”
Popping out from behind the mirror to face subsequent to Rudolph — the place she acquired one more spherical of cheers from the viewers — Harris made yet one more joke, asking her counterpart if she’s registered within the swing state of Pennsylvania, earlier than the pair delivered the present’s most well-known line in unison: “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”
Later within the episode, which was hosted by comic John Mulaney and featured musical visitor Chappell Roan, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Hillary Clinton’s 2016 operating mate, offered the second political cameo of the night time. Kaine, poking enjoyable at his lack of memorability on a sport present referred to as “What’s My Name?” stumped contestants who had been challenged to determine him — simply eight years after he was concerned in one other “most important election in American history.”
Together with her shock go to Saturday to New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Harris joined a roster of White Home hopefuls who’ve appeared on the long-running sketch present, together with Trump, Clinton and Barack Obama.
In an announcement posted to social media within the lead-up to Saturday’s episode, Brendan Carr, a Republican on the Federal Communications Fee, criticized Harris’ look as a “clear and blatant effort to evade” the fee’s equal-time rule, which gives for political candidates to obtain equal alternatives on broadcast networks. A supply with data of the community’s practices mentioned NBC will adjust to any regulatory obligations.