Kamala Harris was used to celebrities falling all over themselves to praise her.
But one bad decision she made crossed the line with a comedian.
And a Saturday Night Live star just delivered an excruciating reality check for Kamala Harris that left her speechless.
Comedian slams Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live
NBC’s Saturday Night Live used to be one of the funniest and most influential shows on TV.
But like the rest of late-night TV, it’s taken a turn for the worse in recent years.
Saturday Night Live used to lampoon politicians on both sides of the aisle, but the sketch comedy show wouldn’t make fun of President Joe Biden until he got out of the race.
The show has become increasingly left-wing and unfunny in recent years as its relevance declined.
Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live on the weekend before Election Day.
She performed in a cold open sketch with comedian Maya Rudolph who plays her on the show.
Rudolph’s character of Kamala sits down in front of a vanity mirror and gets into a discussion with the real Kamala who’s on the other side of it.
It was a chance for some free publicity for Kamala in a friendly setting in the closing days before the election.
NBC didn’t make the same offer to former President Donald Trump to appear on the sketch comedy show.
Under federal equal time law, Trump got to deliver a 90-second message after NBC’s Sunday Night Football and during a NASCAR race.
Comedian who played Ronald Reagan on Saturday Night Live former torched Kamala Harris’ appearance
Comedian Joe Piscopo was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984.
Piscopo criticized the sketch comedy show for having Kamala on as a guest during an appearance on Fox Business.
“I was the guy appointed and anointed to do Ronald Reagan and, at the time, I was a diehard Democrat, but it was nicer back then. It was kinder, and it was gentler,” Piscopo said.
The comedian said that when he was on Saturday Night Live, Reagan would have never appeared on the show.
But an invitation to the White House from Reagan changed his life.
“In reverse… he invited me down to the White House, and I really honestly believe that it went from Nancy Reagan to Frank Sinatra to me to go down to the White House, and I got to meet Ronald Reagan, and that changed my whole political outlook,” Piscopo explained.
Piscopo became a conservative and a Trump supporter.
He noted that Saturday Night Live tried to be balanced with its political humor when he was a cast member.
“Republicans were the bad guys back then, I remember. That was the mindset and then… I did an almost, a really, a whole satirical look on Ronald Reagan, how I thought he was taking the country in the wrong direction, and my executive producer killed it,” Piscopo recalled.
“He thought it was too political,” Piscopo continued. “How about that? Because it was like it wasn’t balanced enough. Nowadays, the Democrats just go over there and they do it. But I understand that my conservative friends get so upset because they go, ‘Look at what they’re doing on SNL.’ It’s always been like that. I was like that.”
