Steve Martin is weighing in on the requests for him to play Tim Walz on 'Saturday Night Live.' Martin's name quickly started trending on social media after Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Walz as her running mate in her 2024 presidential bid. Martin, who has made frequent guest appearances on 'SNL' and hosted the show numerous times, indicated that he saw the chatter. He wrote on Instagram Threads, "I just learned that Tim Walz wants to go on the road with Marty Short."
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00:00Steve Martin is weighing in on the requests for him to play Tim Walls on Saturday Night
00:03Live.
00:04Martin's name quickly started trending on social media Tuesday after Vice President
00:09Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Walls as her running mate in her 2024 presidential
00:14bid.
00:15Martin, who has made frequent guest appearances on SNL and hosted the show numerous times,
00:19indicated that he saw the chatter.
00:21He wrote on Instagram threads,
00:22I just learned that Tim Walls wants to go on the road with Marty Short.
00:26Martin and his longtime friend and Only Murders in the Building co-star, Short, have a number
00:30of live shows scheduled to take place throughout the U.S. this fall.
00:34However, Martin was not the only person named as an option to play Walls on the long-running
00:38variety show.
00:39Other suggestions from users on the app X, formerly Twitter, include Danny DeVito, Tom
00:44Arnold, Bradley Whitford, and Bill Murray, just to name a few.
00:47SNL has already enlisted alum Maya Rudolph to reprise her role as Harris through the
00:512024 election.
00:52I'm just a shy entertainment lawyer.
00:55Come on.
00:56No, Doug, all you have to do is pretend it's just us, baby.
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