Transfer over Maya Rudolph because the real-life Kamala Harris is ready to make a shock look on Saturday Evening Reside, a supply conversant in the matter instructed The Hollywood Reporter.
Her anticipated look comes simply days forward of Election Day because the battle for the subsequent 4 years of the White Home closes in. The vp will be a part of John Mulaney, who’s internet hosting the upcoming episode, alongside musical visitor Chappell Roan.
Earlier Saturday, hypothesis was circulating on social media of a shock Harris cameo on NBC’s sketch comedy present as her aircraft, certain for Michigan, had been diverted to New York Metropolis for an unannounced cease. She was campaigning within the battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina earlier within the day.
The vp’s pool report mentioned Saturday afternoon that her motorcade arrived at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the place SNL is tapped, at 8:03 p.m. ET.
Except for there solely being a couple of days left till Election Day, Harris’ SNL look additionally comes as a little bit of a shocker as SNL creator Lorne Michaels beforehand instructed THR that he hadn’t reached out to the real-life candidates and didn’t intend to earlier than the 2024 election.
“You possibly can’t carry the precise people who find themselves operating on due to election legal guidelines and the equal time provisions,” Michaels mentioned on the time after which clarified: “You possibly can’t have the principle candidates with out having all of the candidates, and there are many minor candidates which are solely on the poll in, like, three states and that turns into actually difficult.”
Since SNL‘s season 50 kicked off in September, Rudolph has been taking part in Harris. As for her operating mate Tim Walz and husband Douglas Emhoff, they’ve been portrayed by Jim Gaffigan and Andy Samberg, respectively.