Howard Stern, a radio host, said this week that “there is too much at stake” in the upcoming election for “SNL” to make fun of Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President.
Harris kept going to the media this week, and she met with Stern. Stern was falling over himself to say how much he supported Harris’s campaign.
“You have to win,” they told her.
Stern said he was “really nervous” around the election because he wanted Harris to win.
Stern told Harris, “I hate it on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ where Maya Rudolph plays you.”
“Don’t make fun. Too much is at stake. Right now, I think the whole future of this country is on the line—as America, the land of the free and the home of the brave,” he said.
Harris replied, “I agree with you.”
Stern asked Harris how she felt about the impression of her. Harris said she was “a big fan” and “thought it was funny.”
He said, “I think she spent a lot of time on the piece and the character.”
In a recent appearance on “The View,” Harris saw a video of Rudolph imitating her. In response to the video, she said, “Maya Rudolph, she is so good! She had the suit, the jewelry, and the attitude.”
Trump has a “desire to be a dictator,” Harris told Stern.
“He says he’ll be a tyrant from the first day,” she said. “Do not forget what tyrants do. They put reporters in jail. The Biden-Harris government has done both of these things: “They put people who are marching in the street in jail.”
Stern told Harris, “You have to win now that there is so much pressure on you.”
Michelle Cottle, a columnist for The New York Times, made fun of the friendly conversation. She said it was like Harris spending an “hour in the warm hug” of Stern. The radio host was “a little too openly butt-smoochy,” Cottle said.
“Who could refuse the chance to hire Stern, a famous trash-talker who doesn’t like the MAGA king, to do some Trump bashing for them?” The cottle asked.
