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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01:14head to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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