Maya Rudolph will return to Saturday Night Live to play Kamala Harris during the forthcoming season of the long running comedy program.
According to Deadline, the former cast member has cleared her schedule to ensure availability for upcoming episodes with the 50th season of the show premiering on 28 September. Pre-production on Rudolph’s Apple comedy series Loot has reportedly been put on pause.
Rudolph won an Emmy for playing the vice-president-turned-presumptive presidential-candidate during her 2020 run as Harris. She has called playing a major political character “a rite of passage” at the show.
This is going to be delicious.
Deadline Article
“Mamala” is getting back to work, as Maya Rudolph will reprise her Emmy-winning role as Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live this fall as the NBC late-night comedy program covers the final stretch of the 2024 Presidential campaign.
Rudolph’s impersonation of Harris has been so popular, the moment the Vice President emerged as the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee after President Joe Biden on July 21, fans had been urging her to clear her schedule for an SNL return. And she has.
Maya certainly can capture the joy and the sass, and hopefully another Emmy nomination.
SNL premiers on 28 September this fall.
