Of the many upsets that came out of this week’s presidential election, Dana Carvey‘s Joe Biden is ending his term on Saturday Night Live.
The SNL alum, who returned to the NBC sketch comedy show this season to impersonate the president leading up to Election Day, said Vice President Kamala Harris “laughed so hard” at his impression of Biden when she appeared on last weekend’s episode.
“She’d done the cold opening and it was a very — whatever your political thing is, it was a very human moment, the way the audience, the emotion of the audience for her in that studio for about two minutes, couldn’t help but kind of well you up. I mean, it just was sort of emotional,” he recalled on his Superfly podcast.
“And then she’s down in Maya [Rudolph]‘s dressing room, her people go, ‘Oh, take a picture,’ because I was still dressed as Biden,” added Carvey. “And then I came in and she kind of went, ‘Hey,’ and so I had about a minute face-to-face with her and I just did all my Biden hooks. ‘No, I’m not kidding. I’m being serious.’ She laughed so hard. She was bent over laughing.”
Carvey was flattered by Harris’ reaction to his Biden. “That was kind of interesting,” he explained. “I guess she sees all of this from a different point of view. But it seemed cathartic or something. I don’t know. People seem to like it.”
Dana Carvey plays President Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live.
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Last week’s SNL cold open featured Rudolph as Harris, sitting down at her vanity, where the real Harris appeared in the mirror to swap affirmations. “Keep Kamala, and carry on-ala,” they said.
Harris’ surprise appearance forced NBC to abide by the FCC‘s equal time rule, offering Trump 90 seconds of free advertising.
Ahead of this week’s election, Carvey and Rudolph returned to SNL along with fellow alum Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff, as well as comedian Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz.
