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Steve Martin is weighing in on the requests for him to play Tim Walz on 'Saturday Night Live.' Martin's name quickly started trending on social media after Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Walz as her running mate in her 2024 presidential bid. Martin, who has made frequent guest appearances on 'SNL' and hosted the show numerous times, indicated that he saw the chatter. He wrote on Instagram Threads, "I just learned that Tim Walz wants to go on the road with Marty Short."
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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.
01:05This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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