2024 Pre-Election Cold Open - SNL
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Shane Galvin and
Steven Vago
Published Nov. 2, 2024, 11:49 p.m. ET
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Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live — where she played a “mirror image” of herself and joked about her own screechy laugh in a final media push before Tuesday’s election.
Harris came face-to-face with her impersonator Maya Rudolph in the show’s cold open.
The skit began with a CNN newscast that cut to James Austin Johnson’s impression of former President Donald Trump at a rally, dressed in the orange garbage man vest he wore this past week at a campaign event.
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Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance in the cold open of the sketch show.SNL / NBC
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Harris came face-to-face with her impersonator Maya Rudolph.SNL / NBC
The open cuts to Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, and Jim Gaffigan as Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, respectively.
Dana Carvey also made an appearance as President Joe Biden.
Rudolph’s Harris clears the room saying she “needs a moment to herself.”
“I wish I could talk to someone in my shoes,” Rudolph said to herself in the empty room.
Then the real Kamala Harris appears in the dressing room mirror.
“You and me both sister!,” Harris said, grinning ear to ear after thirty seconds of applause from the live audience.
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Rudolph’s Harris said “I wish I could talk to someone in my shoes” and that’s when the real Kamala Harris appeared in the dressing room mirror.SNL / NBC
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The crowd went wild when cameras cut to Harris and Rudolph looking at each other in the mirror.AFP via Getty Images
Harris went on to say, “I’m here to remind you, you’ve got this, because you can do something your opponent can’t do, you can open doors.”
When Rudolph let out a loud, familiar Kamala cackle, the candidate said, “I don’t really laugh like that do I?”
The pair had fun with the veep’s name. Harris said she would end the “dramala” of politics with her election and the two said in unison, “Keep Kamala and Carry Onala.”
“I’m gonna vote for us,” Rudolph says.
“Any chance you’re registered in Pennsylvania?,” Harris quipped.
The veep also joined in on the quintessential “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
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Rudolph and Harris screamed the iconic “live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”AFP via Getty Images
Harris did not get as friendly a welcome as she left the SNL studios at Rockefeller Center, as anti-Israel protesters chanted “Murderer, murderer, murderer!” as her motorcade drove by.
Trump’s campaign ripped Harris for going on the show.
“Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it,” spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News.
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Vice President Kamala Harris hugging Maya Rudolph on the set of Saturday Night Live in New York City.REUTERS
The politics continued on the show in a later skit, in which host John Mulaney played a clueless liberal on a game show which was shown a tweet made in 2016 talking about how the election would be the end of the world if Hillary Clinton didn’t win.
He was then offered a huge payday if he could identify Clinton’s running mate, and the real Sen. Tim Kaine appeared — and Mulaney’s character had no idea who he was.
“You voted for me four years ago,” Kaine says in disbelief.
Kamala Harris had a busy schedule Saturday.
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Vice President Kamala Harris waving while boarding Air Force Two at LaGuardia Airport after her appearance on Saturday Night Live, en route to Detroit.AP
Harris was in Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC, earlier in the day —- squeezing in some last-minute campaigning in the Peach State in the final 60 hours before the election.
SNL has a history of inviting presidents and presidential candidates.
Former Vice President Al Gore, late Senator John McCain, and Trump each hosted episodes of the historic show. Trump hosted the show in 2004 and in 2015 in the lead-up to the presidential election.
Former presidents Gerald Ford and Barack Obama both appeared on the show during their terms in office. Obama in 2018 and Ford appeared in an episode of a 50-year-old show’s second season in 1976.
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The late President George H.W. Bush appeared on the show in 1994, following his term in office.
Hillary Clinton also appeared on an episode in 2015 in the month leading up to the election.
Kamala Harris jokes with ‘herself’ over screechy laugh in surprise ‘SNL’ spot as Trump campaign rips veep for ‘cosplaying with her elitist friends’
ByShane Galvin and
Steven Vago
Published Nov. 2, 2024, 11:49 p.m. ET
1.5K Comments
Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live — where she played a “mirror image” of herself and joked about her own screechy laugh in a final media push before Tuesday’s election.
Harris came face-to-face with her impersonator Maya Rudolph in the show’s cold open.
The skit began with a CNN newscast that cut to James Austin Johnson’s impression of former President Donald Trump at a rally, dressed in the orange garbage man vest he wore this past week at a campaign event.
7Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance in the cold open of the sketch show.SNL / NBC
7Harris came face-to-face with her impersonator Maya Rudolph.SNL / NBC
The open cuts to Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, and Jim Gaffigan as Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, respectively.
Dana Carvey also made an appearance as President Joe Biden.
Rudolph’s Harris clears the room saying she “needs a moment to herself.”
“I wish I could talk to someone in my shoes,” Rudolph said to herself in the empty room.
Then the real Kamala Harris appears in the dressing room mirror.
“You and me both sister!,” Harris said, grinning ear to ear after thirty seconds of applause from the live audience.
7Rudolph’s Harris said “I wish I could talk to someone in my shoes” and that’s when the real Kamala Harris appeared in the dressing room mirror.SNL / NBC
7The crowd went wild when cameras cut to Harris and Rudolph looking at each other in the mirror.AFP via Getty Images
Harris went on to say, “I’m here to remind you, you’ve got this, because you can do something your opponent can’t do, you can open doors.”
When Rudolph let out a loud, familiar Kamala cackle, the candidate said, “I don’t really laugh like that do I?”
The pair had fun with the veep’s name. Harris said she would end the “dramala” of politics with her election and the two said in unison, “Keep Kamala and Carry Onala.”
“I’m gonna vote for us,” Rudolph says.
“Any chance you’re registered in Pennsylvania?,” Harris quipped.
The veep also joined in on the quintessential “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
7Rudolph and Harris screamed the iconic “live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”AFP via Getty Images
Harris did not get as friendly a welcome as she left the SNL studios at Rockefeller Center, as anti-Israel protesters chanted “Murderer, murderer, murderer!” as her motorcade drove by.
Trump’s campaign ripped Harris for going on the show.
“Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it,” spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News.
7Vice President Kamala Harris hugging Maya Rudolph on the set of Saturday Night Live in New York City.REUTERS
The politics continued on the show in a later skit, in which host John Mulaney played a clueless liberal on a game show which was shown a tweet made in 2016 talking about how the election would be the end of the world if Hillary Clinton didn’t win.
He was then offered a huge payday if he could identify Clinton’s running mate, and the real Sen. Tim Kaine appeared — and Mulaney’s character had no idea who he was.
“You voted for me four years ago,” Kaine says in disbelief.
Kamala Harris had a busy schedule Saturday.
7Vice President Kamala Harris waving while boarding Air Force Two at LaGuardia Airport after her appearance on Saturday Night Live, en route to Detroit.AP
Harris was in Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC, earlier in the day —- squeezing in some last-minute campaigning in the Peach State in the final 60 hours before the election.
SNL has a history of inviting presidents and presidential candidates.
Former Vice President Al Gore, late Senator John McCain, and Trump each hosted episodes of the historic show. Trump hosted the show in 2004 and in 2015 in the lead-up to the presidential election.
Former presidents Gerald Ford and Barack Obama both appeared on the show during their terms in office. Obama in 2018 and Ford appeared in an episode of a 50-year-old show’s second season in 1976.
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The late President George H.W. Bush appeared on the show in 1994, following his term in office.
Hillary Clinton also appeared on an episode in 2015 in the month leading up to the election.
That SNL Harris - Rudolph opening was FANTASTIC! No other way to describe it.
Oh, and the Trump one was okay...
Oh, and the Trump one was okay...