SNL Video: Friendly VP Debate Stresses Out Kamala Harris — ‘Why Are They Vibing?!’
This week on NBC‘s Saturday Night Live, a stressed-out Kamala Harris nearly chose Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story over watching her running mate trade niceties with JD Vance during the vice presidential debate.
With Heidi Gardner and Chloe Fineman playing moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan, this week’s cold open saw Harris (Maya Rudolph) and her “GRILF” husband Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg, who also starred in a new digital short) sit down at home to check out Tim Walz’s debate with Vance.
But when Jim Gaffigan‘s Walz wasn’t scribbling furiously at his podium (to catch up on grading student papers), he was claiming to be “friends with school shooters” (à la the real Walz’s verbal hiccup this past Tuesday night).
Even milquetoast Doug had to admit that his missus’ running mate had people on edge: “I’m in my nice guys group chat with Josh Gad and Jason Kelce, and the mood is dark.”
Bowen Yang’s Vance was suitably dodgy with answers, while Jim Gaffigan’s Walz coughed up a whole new explanation for the Tiananmen Square mix-up: “So, I think what happened is I went to EPCOT…,” he offered, shrugging: “I’m a knucklehead!”
But what set Harris over-the-edge, smashing the wine glass in her hand, was seeing Walz and Vance find common ground on issues, as “Take My Breath Away’ washed over the scene: “Why are they vibing?!”
President Joe Biden (Dana Carvey) eventually wandered into the Harris-Emhoff living room, waving a drippy ice cream cone around and on-and-onning about how veeps don’t really matter in the scheme of things.
“Who the hell was Obama’s VP?” he asked. “Nobody knows!”
Watch the sketch above, then grade this weekend’s episode.
Multiple anti-queer bits were offensive and went into the gutter while having no place on SNL
Che’s misogynistic anti-lesbian “joke,” once again exhibits his disdain for queer women.
Jost’s anti-gay “humor” was an affront.
Samburg’s video was putrid and an affront to gay men.
Taking offense is choice. Always.
Time to grow up.
Bigotry is bigotry regardless of whether it comes from friends of our community or enemies of it. Che’s “humor” (repeatedly demonstrated over time) towards the LBGTIA++ family is as disgusting and negative as Dave Chapelle’s.
Not only is taking offense a choice, but it doesn’t pay well either. No one cares how you wish to be sexually gratified. Don’t base your whole world around it.
Loved the diversity of the show, diverse meaning they didn’t single out one group like usual. This was like the old times, made me crack up! Thank you SNL