00:00The fun is back, baby! America's fun end!
00:04Maya Rudolph is returning to Saturday Night Live to play Kamala Harris in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.
00:11Production on Rudolph's Apple TV Plus series, Loot, was scheduled to start work on Season 3 in late August,
00:16but it's been delayed for scheduling reasons.
00:19This helps free up her time to work on SNL.
00:21Reps 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.
00:44SNL has brought in former cast members and A-listers to play political figures a number of times over the years.
00:50Tina Fey played Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin several times in 2008.
00:55Frequent host Alec Baldwin did a Donald Trump impression on a number of episodes during the former president's term,
01:00and a Biden impression was 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 28th.
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