Kamala Harris was skewered for her laugh in a surprise cameo on Saturday Night Live where she came face-to-face with herself just three days before the presidential election.
The vice president appeared for just over two minutes in the cold open as a mirrored version of Maya Rudolph, who is playing her in the NBC sketch show.
Rudolph is preparing for a speech when she wonders aloud if someone who has ‘been in her shoes’ could give her a pep talk.
A laughing Harris then appears as herself on the other side of the table and says ‘you and me both sister’.
‘I’m just here to remind you, you’ve got this. Because you can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors,’ Harris tells Rudolph.
A laughing Rudolph asks if she was referring to video of Donald Trump opening a garbage truck door before his rally in Wisconsin last week.
The Democratic nominee was then mocked for her cackle when she asked: ‘I really don’t laugh like that, do I?’
Rudolph tilted her head and nodded in response in a scene similar to when Hillary Clinton was roasted just before the 2016 election.
‘Kamala, reach out and take my pamala’, Rudolph says.
She adds: ‘Kamala, the American people want to stop the chaos.’
‘And end the drama,’ the vice president responds with the audience laughing,
The pair then said in unison: ‘Keep Kamala and Carry On-ala’.
The Trump campaign immediately responded to her debut on the show, by claiming she used a fake accent.
‘Kamala trying and failing yet again at appearing remotely funny, relatable, or entertaining in the slightest,’ the MAGA War Room Twitter account posted.
‘Her cameo was uninspiring – much like her candidacy.’
The sketch started with Chloe Fineman playing CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins introducing a ‘four-and-a-half hour’ Donald Trump rally where he said ‘where am I’ and ‘get me out of here’.
Harris made the surprise appearance after diverting Air Force Two at the last-minute to New York City.
The trip was kept quiet and the press were only told after the plane had changed course from its expected destination, Detroit.
Harris had just two events Saturday, one in Atlanta and one in Charlotte, at a time when campaigns are blanketing swing states with candidates and surrogates.
While she was en route she a new poll dropped that sent shockwaves through the presidential campaign with less than 72 hours to go.
The final Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll has Harris leading Trump 47 percent to 44 percent among likely voters, less than three days before Election Day.
It was a shocking result in a state the Democrats haven’t won since Barack Obama in 2012 and could be an outlier.
But it suggested that the gap between the two candidates could be getting even closer in what is expected to be a historically tight election on Tuesday night.
The visit is the latest in a long line of appearances by presidential candidates on the show, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
Although the details of her appearance was being kept quiet, the show has comedians set to play all the characters of the bizarre 2024 election. They include Dana Carvey who skewers President Joe Biden’s speaking style, and James Austin Johnson, who has mastered Trump’s mannerisms.
The appearance was no laughing matter for the Donald Trump campaign.
‘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,’ said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.
‘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,’ he said. Trump has sued CBS over its editing of its ’60 Minutes’ broadcast, and has complained it was ‘two against one’ during his debate with Harris on ABC.