Democrat nominee Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in an appeal to the NBC flagship show’s national television audience days before the election.
Before her appearance, media outlets that act as her campaign’s de facto public relations arm eagerly touted the news that she aborted a planned event in Detroit to fly to New York City to do the show, which has devolved into a weekly orgy of Trump-hating skits in recent years.
She had previously refused to fly to Texas to sit down with podcasting king Joe Rogan for one of his trademark extended interviews, one that would have been a trainwreck for Harris, and her handlers knew it.
Harris did a cringeworthy skit in which she sat in front of a mirror looking at her SNL counterpart Maya Rudolph and made fun of former President Donald J. Trump’s epic bit of trolling when he climbed aboard a garbage truck in Wisconsin after Joe Biden’s remark that half of the electorate is human garbage. She also joked about her own creepy laughter.
Kamala Harris talks to Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/AJuW7aO7VM
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 3, 2024
The audience ate it up as well as Democrats watching on television, but there was one big problem with the unfunny skit, it looked very familiar. And that’s because Trump did a similar skit back in 2016 before he became persona non-grata on the set of the long-running late-night “comedy” show.
Even her SNL skit was plagiarized pic.twitter.com/EQDQMGgtGG
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 3, 2024
Kamala Harris SNL skit DIRECTLY copied Trump’s from 2015.
Can she do ANYTHING original at all? https://t.co/RX3zMprYfo pic.twitter.com/wwbdVJgig1
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 3, 2024
Team Trump critiqued her appearance, pointing out that her sudden diversion to do SNL speaks volumes about her priorities.
“Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it,” Trump campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.
Kamala’s cringeworthy SNL skit was also brutally panned by X users.
SNL had an opportunity to use all of the last two weeks of crazy election news to do a hilarious and nonpartisan live open tonight…
Instead, they decided to do a very unfunny fluffing of their favorite candidate, who, if she loses, won’t even be allowed on set in 3-4 months.
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) November 3, 2024
She traveled to New York to be on SNL but couldn’t find the time go to Texas to be on Joe Rogan.
Not a serious candidate. https://t.co/Ebbi37KkcK
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 3, 2024
Max cringe.
— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) November 3, 2024
SNL has sucked since the late 80s. Now they are sucking the nipple of the political establishment, instead of using comedy to criticise them.
This is gag-inducing cringe.— Theta Sigma (@MagesGuildOrg) November 3, 2024
Choosing to schmooze with her celebrity friends on national television over making her case to actual voters may not only be a bad look for the preferred candidate of filthy rich celebrity elites but could also have run afoul of FCC rules, according to a Republican member who sits on the Federal Communications Commission.
This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.
The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election.… https://t.co/LliZF0po9t
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) November 3, 2024
“This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule,” wrote Brendan Carr in a post to X. “The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”
Federal law requires that broadcasters provide comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered.
With only days before the election, NBC appears to have structured this appearance in a way that evades these requirements.… pic.twitter.com/PjrgWCqsgy
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) November 3, 2024
Like the other late-night shows, SNL has become overtly partisan in favor of Democrats and is clearly looking to help drag Harris across the finish line.
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