The very last episode of Saturday Night Live before the 2024 presidential election hosted by John Mulaney began, predictably, with a cold open featuring Maya Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris. It also featured Vice President Kamala Harris herself, popping up on the other side of a fake mirror to give herself a pep talk. She got a dig in at her opponent, saying, “I’m just here to remind you you’ve got this, because you can do something your opponent cannot do: You can open doors,†referring to Trump’s garbage-truck moment. When Rudolph imitated her laugh, she asked, “I don’t really laugh like that, do I?†before taking Rudolph’s “palm-ala,†pledging to “end the drama-la,†and giving the sage advice to “Keep Kamala and carry on-ala†— which, days before the election, is harder than it sounds.
Harris then emerged from the other side of the mirror to stand with her arm around her sketch-comedy doppelgänger and deliver one more piece of inspirational dialogue: “Any chance you’re registered in Pennsylvania?â€