Maya Rudolph is returning to 'Saturday Night Live' to play Kamala Harris in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. Production on Rudolph's Apple TV+ series 'Loot' was scheduled to start work on season three in late August, but it's been delayed for scheduling reasons. This helps free up her time to work on 'SNL.' Reps for NBC haven't replied to a request for comment.
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00:00The funt is back, baby! America's funt aunt!"
00:04Maya Rudolph is returning to Saturday Night Live to play Kamala Harris in the run-up to the 2024
00:09presidential election. Production on Rudolph's Apple TV Plus series Loot was scheduled to start
00:14work on season 3 in late August, but it's been delayed for scheduling reasons. This helps free
00:19up her time to work on SNL. Reps for NBC haven't replied to a request for comment.
00:24Rudolph played Harris several times in the lead-up to the 2020 election,
00:28first as a candidate for president and then as Joe Biden's VP pick.
00:32She most recently did so in a March 2021 episode that she hosted.
00:36I'm just a shy entertainment lawyer. Come on, all you have to do is pretend it's just us, baby.
00:44SNL has brought in former cast members and A-listers to play political figures a number
00:48of times over the years. Tina Fey played Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah
00:53Palin several times in 2008. Frequent host Alec Baldwin did a Donald Trump impression
00:58on a number of episodes during the former president's term, and a Biden impression
01:01was passed from Jason Sudeikis during the Obama years to Jim Carrey before the 2020 election.
01:07SNL is set to begin its milestone 50th season on September 28.
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