Just days before the US presidential election, Kamala Harris has made a surprise guest appearance on the popular NBC sketch comedy, Saturday Night Live.
The Vice President appeared in an opening segment of the show’s last episode before Election Day, alongside Maya Rudolph, the actor who has played Harris on the show since 2019.
Rudolph is seen sitting in a dressing room, talking to the camera and wishing aloud that she could talk to “someone who was in my shoes” — particularly a “Black, South Asian woman running for president, preferably from the Bay Area…”
The camera then cuts to the real Harris, sitting opposite Rudolph, appearing to look back at her in the mirror. “You and me both, sister,” Harris said, as the live audience went wild with applause.
Rudolph laughed, mimicking the Harris’ laugh, to which Harris asked, “I don’t really laugh like that, do I?”
“A little bit,” Rudolph replied.
The two women wore identical suits and had matching hair styles, looking at each other as they laughed.
“Now, Kamala, take my palmala,” Rudolph said, extending her hand. “The American people want to stop the chaos…”
“And end the dramala,” Harris completed.
“With a cool new step mommala,” Rudolph said. “Kick back in our pajamalas and watch a rom-Kamala.”
Harris then gave her fictional self some advice: “It is nice to see you, Kamala, and I’m just here to remind you, you got this. Because you can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors,” Harris said, referencing a joke about footages of Donald Trump attempting to enter a garbage truck at a recent campaign event.
Harris and Rudolph ended the sketch by standing side by side, with Rudolph saying she’s going to vote for “us.”
“Any chance you are registered in Pennsylvania?” Harris said, referring to a crucial swing-state.
Harris’ appearance comes at the tail end of her campaign to become the next US president. In recent weeks, she has been interviewed by Alex Cooper on her popular Call Her Daddy podcast, radio personality Charlemagne Tha God, and NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor. She also appeared in a special 60 Minutes episode on October 7, to which Trump has now sued CBS, alleging the interview was misleading and amounted to “election interference”.
Past presidential candidates have appeared on SNL, including Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2015 and Barack Obama in 2007.