On November 7, 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially won the United States Presidency and Vice-Presidency. They gave an acceptance speech that evening in Wilmington, Delaware around 8:30 pm EST that night. Just a few states over in New York City, the cast and crew of Saturday Night Live, that bastion of weekly, live, and yes, topical sketch comedy, were throwing together elements of their show last minute, as huge pieces of news (i.e. a new president) required them to do. When they began airing around 11:30 pm EST (actually, a little delayed thanks to …

With just five days left before Election Day, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris will appear as a guest on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. It's been over a year since Harris last appeared on The Daily Show. Previously, she came on the Comedy Central nightly news show in February 2019 with plans to discuss policing and criminal justice in America. What resulted from Harris' candid and measured conversation with Daily Show host Trevor Noah was a profound and necessary interview about one of the most pressing concerns facing the nation today. Now, Harris will return for the …

VP hopeful Kamala Harris spoke out about Chadwick Boseman during an Avengers assemble voting event.

In keeping with their bizarre practice of not having their actual cast members play major recurring roles, Saturday Night Live dropped a first-look teaser of Jim Carrey as Joe Biden and Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris ahead of the sketch show’s season premiere this Saturday. And they look… fine? Mostly fine, yeah. Don’t get me wrong - it’s delightful to see Carrey returning to sketch comedy (it’s been nearly 30 years since In Living Color), and Rudolph absolutely crushes it in everything she does. But the stunt casting aspect of it can’t be ignored, particularly …

Finally, an announcement even more awaited than the Snyder Cut — it was revealed this Tuesday that Senator Kamala Harris would become former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate in this year's Presidential election, making a whole lot of history as the first Black (and South Asian) woman to run for the country's second-highest office on a major party's ticket. One of the least important yet still fun aspects of this announcement is the fact that in the world of comedy, it means more work for Maya Rudolph in the very-not-too-distant future. The …