00:00Steve Martin is weighing in on the request for him to play Tim Walls on Saturday Night Live.
00:05Martin's name quickly started trending on social media Tuesday after Vice President Kamala Harris
00:10selected Minnesota Governor Walls as her running mate in her 2024 presidential bid.
00:15Martin, who has made frequent guest appearances on SNL and hosted the show numerous times,
00:19indicated that he saw the chatter. He wrote on Instagram threads,
00:23I 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 of live
00:31shows scheduled to take place throughout the U.S. this fall. However, Martin was not the only person
00:35named as an option to play Walls on the long-running variety show. Other suggestions from users on the
00:40app X, formerly Twitter, include Danny DeVito, Tom Arnold, Bradley Whitford, and Bill Murray,
00:46just to name a few. SNL has already enlisted alum Maya Rudolph to reprise her role as Harris through
00:51the 2024 election. For much more on this story and all the latest news, go to THR.com.
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