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Harris' brief appearance, playing herself opposite Maya Rudolph, the show's designated Harris impersonator, took place during the final days of the presidential campaign and featured the Democratic candidate in an oft-used mirror gag where she sat across from Rudolph's fictional Harris, offering words of encouragement. .
This appearance sparked controversy, in part because the series' creator and executive producer, Lorne Michaels, had previously stated that either contestant was unlikely to appear on the series this year.
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Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance on the final episode of “Saturday Night Live” ahead of Tuesday's presidential election. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)
“You can't bring in the real candidates because of election laws and equal time provisions,” Michaels told The Hollywood Reporter in October. “You can't have the major candidates without having all the candidates, and there are a lot of minor candidates who are only on the ballot in three states, and it gets really complicated.”
NBC filed an equal time notice with the Federal Communications Commission on Sunday evening, which would grant Trump equal time on the network following the vice president's “SNL” appearance.
Although Harris' appearance was brief, Trump himself hosted the show twice, first in 2004 and again in 2015, as well as years of everyone impersonating Phil Hartman to Alec Baldwin.
Donald Trump hosted “SNL” twice, once in 2004 and again in 2015, when he was running for president. (Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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Hotline Bling Parody
In 2015, Drake had a mega hit with “Hotline Bling,” accompanied by a simple music video showing the rapper dancing in an empty space with color-changing lights.
Drake's dance moves in the video were widely mocked, so “SNL” did a parody, calling the dance “dad-like.”
Trump appears as a “tax man” singing the lyrics “you were calling me on my cell phone” and imitating Drake's awkward dance with actors Beck Bennett, Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan and Jay Pharoah (who played Drake).
Martin Short also appeared in the sketch as his character Ed Grimley, joking “Drizzy Drake stole my moves and that's no lie”, a nod to another popular joke about dancing Drake.
Trump embraced some self-deprecation with silly dance moves in a “Hotline Bling” parody music video. (Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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Monologue 2015
Trump's second election came early in his campaign in 2015, a few months after he officially announced his candidacy.
In his monologue, Trump joked about his ongoing feud with Rosie O'Donnell and the show itself, bringing out actors Taran Killam and Darrel Hammond, who both regularly impersonated him on the show.
Towards the end of the monologue, Larry David (who frequently appeared as Bernie Sanders on the show at the time) calls Trump a racist from the audience, and when asked why, he replies that he would get $5,000 for this.
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This was a nod to a Latino rights group, DeportRacism.com, which led a boycott of Trump's concert at the time, offering a bounty to anyone who disrupted Trump's appearance. Trump on “SNL” following his comments that Mexicans were entering the country illegally. were “criminals” and “rapists”.
In response to David, Trump said “as a businessman, I can fully respect that.”
Trump also appeared in his 2015 monologue with Taran Killam and Darrell Hammond, who did impressions of him. (Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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The prince and the pauper
Trump hosted “SNL” in 2004, at the height of his “The Apprentice” fame, and this sketch allowed him to make fun of himself.
In a parody of the story “The Prince and the Pauper,” Trump plays a janitor opposite Darrell Hammond's Trump, who decides to change places to experience a little happiness.
Trump made fun of himself in his 2004 episode and twice confronted Hammond's impression of him in the monologue and sketch “The Prince and the Pauper.” (Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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As the janitor, Trump is a good sport, offering one-liners poking fun at his decorating style (heavy on gilded furniture at the time) and his personality.
Trump, of course, starts “The Apprentice” at the end after the change, firing Hammond and joking that he would enjoy being the prince.