Never mind Maya Rudolph as the real Kamala Harris is set to make a surprise appearance Saturday night livesaid a source close to the matter The Hollywood journalist.
His eagerly awaited appearance comes just days before Election Day as the battle for the next four years of the White House draws closer. The vice president will join John Mulaney, who will host the next episode, along with musical guest Chappell Roan.
On Saturday, speculation circulated on social media about a surprise cameo by Harris on the NBC sketch comedy show as her plane, bound for Michigan, was diverted to New York City for an unannounced stop. Earlier in the day he was campaigning in the battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina.
The vice president's pool report says his motorcade arrived at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Saturday afternoon, where SNL is intercepted, at 8:03 pm ET.
Aside from the fact that Election Day is only a few days away, Harris' SNL the appearance is also a bit shocking SNL creator Lorne Michaels has said this before THR that he had not contacted the real-life candidates and had no plans to do so before the 2024 election.
“You can't carry the actual people who are running because of election laws and equal time provisions,” Michaels said at the time and then clarified: “You can't have the major candidates without having all the candidates, and there are a lot of smaller candidates there who are only on the ballot in three states and that gets really complicated.
From SNLSeason 50 began in September and Rudolph played Harris. As for her running mate Tim Walz and husband Douglas Emhoff, they were played by Jim Gaffigan and Andy Samberg, respectively.