Wow, how is it possible that Senator and Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris managed to cut her hair and hop on a chat with Jimmy Fallon so quickly after the deba— wait a second, that’s not Kamala Harris. That’s Maya Rudolph! The likeness is uncanny! Maya did, after all, just win an Emmy for her recurring cameo on
Saturday Night Live impersonating the Senator, so you can understand our confusion. She just nails it every time.Maya spoke with Jimmy Fallon on
The Tonight Show (weeknights at 11:35pET on CTV2) Wednesday (yes, immediately after the VP debate) about her much-beloved impersonation of Senator Harris and, according to her, this goes way deeper than a devotion to comedy.
“It’s my civic duty; I gotta do it,” she said over video-chat. “I gotta get [to New York] and do whatever I need to do to make sure that she wins this election.”“And also that I do a good job!” she added as an afterthought. Maya, we’re pretty sure you got this impression DOWN. Just the
teaser of your return to
SNL with Canadian comedy legend Jim Carrey sent the interwebs into a tailspin. Heck, even Senator Harris herself was like, “this woman needs
to play me all the time!” (A loose paraphrase).Maya added that really, the passion stems from seeing herself in a candidate who could make it all the way to the White House. "When in my wildest dreams did I think there would be a candidate who looks remotely close to whatever this is?" she said, gesturing to her own face.[video_embed id='2051348']RELATED: These were the top four trending topics from the Vice Presidential debate [/video_embed]
Meeting the Senator (albeit virtually because, y’know... COVID) back in September was an even bigger deal than just playing her, Maya continued, explaining that both Hillary Clinton and
SNL-chum Amy Poehler (who's portrayed Clinton on the show) were also there. “That was nuts! That was the first time I met Kamala and Hillary. We don’t hang out that much. I’ve never met those incredible women. And it was bananas, it was so cool. We were just like chatting about quarantine, asking Hillary about quarantine. She was like, ‘Ah, I’ve been catching up on sleep.’ The coolest!”As they were chatting, she says Amy’s sound went out and no one else could hear her, so as they were trying to find a solution, Hillary apparently jumped right in with the funniest explanation: “It’s probably the Russians.” That truly is the former-Secretary of State's favourite zinger.Maya’s chat with Jimmy comes fresh off the heels of her winning not one, but TWO Emmy’s for her comedic prowess—the first for
her impression of Kamala Harris on
SNL, and the second for her voice work on the hit animated comedy
Big Mouth. “I’ve never won anything in my life!” she exclaimed. “I won that first Emmy for
Big Mouth, really, truly, genuinely not expecting anything. And then I was nominated for
SNL and I was like, ‘Oooh, now I want another one!’ I became an addict overnight!”That’s fair because we’re addicted to your performance, Maya. Even though she’s not technically back on the cast of
SNL full-time, maybe she could very well be a semi-permanent fixture like Alec Baldwin. Please for the love of glob, never leave our late night screens again!Watch
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon weeknights at 11:35pET on CTV2.[video_embed id='-1']BEFORE YOU GO: Friendly kitty desperately tries to befriend chicken [/video_embed]
