NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris has made an unannounced journey to New York to seem on “ Saturday Night time Reside,” briefly stepping away from the battleground states the place she’s been campaigning with simply three days to go earlier than the election.
Harris departed on Air Drive Two after a marketing campaign cease on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was scheduled to go to Detroit, however as soon as the plane was within the air, aides mentioned it was truly going to New York.
Her look on the present was confirmed by three individuals conversant in Harris’ plans who weren’t approved to talk publicly about them. It’s the last SNL episode earlier than Election Day on Tuesday.
Actor Maya Rudolph first performed Harris on the present in 2019 and has reprised her position this season, doing a spot-on impression of the vice chairman, together with calling herself “Momala.”
Rudolph opened the present’s season premiere with the road: “Effectively, effectively, effectively. Look who fell out of that coconut tree.” And he or she’s joked about maintaining President Joe Biden in his place.
Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, has been performed by former forged member Andy Samberg and Biden is performed by Dana Carvey, who additionally famously performed then-President George H.W. Bush within the early Nineteen Nineties.
Rudolph’s efficiency has received vital and comedic acclaim — together with from Harris herself.
“Maya Rudolph — I imply, she’s so good,” Harris mentioned final month on ABC’s “The View.” “She had the entire thing, the go well with, the jewellery, every thing!”
Harris added that she was impressed with Rudolph’s “mannerisms.”
Politicians have an extended historical past on SNL, together with Harris’ Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, who hosted the present in 2015.
Hillary Clinton was operating for president within the 2008 Democratic main when she appeared subsequent to Amy Poehler, who performed her on the present and supplied a trademark, exaggerated cackle. The true Clinton puzzled throughout her look, “Do I actually snigger like that?”
Clinton returned in 2016, whereas operating in opposition to Trump in a race she finally misplaced.
The primary sitting president to seem on Saturday Night time Reside was Republican Gerald Ford, who did so lower than a 12 months after the present debuted. Ford appeared on April 17, 1976, and declared the present’s well-known opening, “Reside from New York.”
Barack Obama was nonetheless only a Democratic presidential candidate when he appeared in February 2008, and Republican Bob Dole made an look in 1996 — a mere 11 days after dropping that 12 months’s election to Democrat Invoice Clinton. Dole consoled Norm Macdonald who performed the Kansas senator on the present.
Then there was Tina Fey’s 2008 impression of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin — and particularly her joke that “I can see Russia from my home.” It was so good that Fey received an Emmy award. Palin herself appeared on the present that season, within the weeks earlier than the election.
Lengthy, Miller and Weissert reported from Washington.
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