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SNL 50: Maya Rudolph's VP Kamala Harris Set Through POTUS Election

Reports are that Maya Rudolph is set to return for SNL Season 50 to play VP Kamala Harris through the 2024 Presidential Election.

Earlier this month, we wondered if NBC's Saturday Night Live EP Lorne Michaels had already given SNL icon and comedy goddess Maya Rudolph a call after the news hit that President Joseph Biden had stepped down as the Democrats' nominee for the 2024 POTUS race and that Vice-President Kamala Harris was looking to be (and now is) the presumptive nominee. Well, it looks like Deadline Hollywood has the exclusive answer, confirming that Rudolph will reprise her take on VP Harris during SNL's upcoming 50th season through the final run of the 2024 Presidential campaign. Reportedly, pre-production on Rudolph's Apple TV+ series Loot has hit the pause button – with "scheduling" being the reason given  (with Universal Television producing both Loot and SNL, schedule adjustments between the two were able to be worked out).

During Season 45 (September 28, 2019), Democratic presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke (Alex Moffat), Andrew Yang (Bowen Yang), Pete Buttigieg (Colin Jost), Cory Booker (Chris Redd), Elizabeth Warren (Kate McKinnon), Marianne Williamson (Chloe Fineman), Bernie Sanders (Larry David), Joe Biden (Woody Harrelson), Kamala Harris (Rudolph) speak at CNN's Impeachment Town Hall during the "DNC Town Hall" sketch:

During Season 45 (November 23, 2019), Presidential candidates Andrew Yang (Yang), Pete Buttigieg (Jost), Cory Booker (Redd), Elizabeth Warren (McKinnon), Amy Klobuchar (Rachel Dratch), Tom Steyer (Will Ferrell), Michael Bloomberg (Fred Armisen), Tulsi Gabbard (Cecily Strong) Bernie Sanders (Larry David), Joe Biden (Harrelson) and Kamala Harris (Rudolph) speak at MSNBC's "2020 Democratic Debate" (also the name of the sketch):

During Season 45 (December 21, 2019), 2020 presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren (McKinnon), Andrew Yang (Yang), Pete Buttigieg (Jost), Amy Klobuchar (Dratch), Bernie Sanders (David), Joe Biden (Jason Sudeikis) and Michael Bloomberg (Armisen) face off in a debate. Though we get an appearance from Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump, it's Rudolph who steals the show one more time: "Look, when [Trump] gets to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he's going to wish he'd never heard my name. It's pronounced 'Kamala.' It rhymes with 'Pamela.' It ain't Camilla Cabello, it's just Kamala."

During Season 46 (October 3, 2020), Chris Wallace (Beck Bennett) moderates the first presidential debate between Donald Trump (Baldwin) and Joe Biden (Jim Carrey).

Here's a look at the intro video for Carrey's Joe Biden and Rudolph's Harris ahead of their SNL appearance on October 3, 2020 (with host Chris Rock and musical guest Megan Thee Stallion). Following that, we have an intro for Rudolph heading into the October 10, 2020, SNL show (with host Bill Burr and musical guest Morgan Wallen).

From SNL Season 46 (with Jack Harlow as host), Rudolph's VP Harris husband Doug Emhoff (Martin Short) host Ted Cruz (Aidy Bryant) and Joe Biden (Moffat) for a friendly Passover dinner. During that same season (with Bill Burr as host), Susan Page (McKinnon) moderates a debate between Senator Harris (Rudolph) and VP Mike Pence (Bennett):

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