Kamala Harris to Make Surprise Appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Transfer over Maya Rudolph because the real-life Kamala Harris is about to make a shock look on Saturday Evening Dwell, a supply accustomed to the matter informed The Hollywood Reporter.

Her anticipated look comes simply days forward of Election Day because the battle for the following 4 years of the White Home closes in. The vice chairman will be 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 airplane, 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 vice chairman’s pool report stated 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 just a few days left till Election Day, Harris’ SNL look additionally comes as a little bit of a shocker as SNL creator Lorne Michaels beforehand informed THR that he hadn’t reached out to the real-life candidates and didn’t intend to earlier than the 2024 election.

“You may’t carry the precise people who find themselves working on due to election legal guidelines and the equal time provisions,” Michaels stated on the time after which clarified: “You may’t have the primary 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 sophisticated.”

Since SNL‘s season 50 kicked off in September, Rudolph has been taking part in Harris. As for her working mate Tim Walz and husband Douglas Emhoff, they’ve been portrayed by Jim Gaffigan and Andy Samberg, respectively.

Alex Weprin contributed to this story.