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NEW YORK (AP) — Live from New York, it’s a statesmanlike campaigner scrounging for each ballot successful the last days earlier the election.
Vice President Kamala Harris made a astonishment travel to New York City connected Saturday to look connected “ Saturday Night Live,” concisely stepping distant from the battleground states wherever she’s been furiously campaigning successful favour of the iconic sketch drama show.
Harris departed connected Air Force Two aft an aboriginal evening run halt connected successful Charlotte, North Carolina. She was scheduled to caput to Detroit, but erstwhile successful the air, aides said she'd beryllium making an unscheduled halt and the level landed astatine LaGuardia Airport successful Queens.
She was appearing successful the acold unfastened kicking disconnected the show, her run confirmed, and the vice president's motorcade arrived astatine 30 Rockefeller Plaza successful Manhattan, wherever SNL tapes, soon aft 8 p.m. — capable clip for a speedy rehearsal earlier the amusement airs unrecorded astatine 11:30 p.m.
It's the last SNL occurrence earlier Election Day connected Tuesday. The episode's philharmonic guest, popular prima Chappell Roan, announced successful September that she was voting for Harris.
Actor Maya Rudolph archetypal played Harris connected the amusement successful 2019 and has reprised her relation this season, doing a spot-on content of the vice president, including calling herself “Momala,” a notation to the affectionate nickname that her stepchildren telephone her.
Rudolph opened the show’s play premiere with the line: “Well, well, well. Look who fell retired of that coconut tree.” And she’s joked astir keeping President Joe Biden successful his place.
Harris' husband, 2nd man Doug Emhoff, has been played by erstwhile formed subordinate Andy Samberg and Biden is played by Dana Carvey, who besides famously played then-President George H.W. Bush successful the aboriginal 1990s.
Rudolph's show has won captious and comedic acclaim — including from Harris herself.
“Maya Rudolph — I mean, she’s truthful good,” Harris said past period connected ABC's “The View.” “She had the full thing, the suit, the jewelry, everything!”
Harris added that she was impressed with Rudolph’s “mannerisms."
Jason Miller, a elder advisor to erstwhile president and Republican nominee Donald Trump, expressed astonishment that Harris would look connected SNL fixed what helium characterized arsenic her unflattering portrayal connected the show. Asked if Trump had been invited to appear, helium said: “I don’t know. Probably not.”
Politicians nevertheless person a agelong past connected SNL, including Trump, who hosted the amusement successful 2015 — though appearing truthful adjacent to Election Day is unusual.
Hillary Clinton was moving successful the 2008 Democratic statesmanlike superior erstwhile she appeared adjacent to Amy Poehler, who played her connected the amusement and was known for launching into a trademark, exaggerated cackle. The existent Clinton wondered during her appearance, “Do I truly laughter similar that?”
Clinton returned successful 2016, portion moving against Trump successful a contention she yet lost.
The archetypal sitting president to look connected SNL was Republican Gerald Ford, who did truthful little than a twelvemonth aft the amusement debuted. Ford appeared successful April 1976 connected an occurrence hosted by his property secretary, Ron Nessen, and declared the show’s celebrated opening rejoinder, “Live from New York, it's Saturday Night.”
Then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama appeared alongside Poehler impersonating Clinton successful 2007, and Republican Bob Dole was connected the amusement successful November 1996 -- a specified 11 days aft losing that year’s predetermination to Bill Clinton. Dole consoled Norm Macdonald, who played the Kansas senator.
Then determination was Tina Fey’s 2008 content of vice statesmanlike campaigner Sarah Palin — and successful peculiar her gag that “I tin spot Russia from my house.” It was truthful bully that Fey yet won an Emmy and Palin herself appeared connected the amusement that October, successful the weeks earlier the election.
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Long, Miller and Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
