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  • -Maya! -Hi.

  • -Oh, it's so good to see you. I like -- Oh, my gosh.

  • I love your hair. I miss seeing you.

  • -Thanks, bud. I know. I love you.

  • -Even though I just saw you on "Saturday Night Live."

  • I love you, bud.

  • Congrats on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend.

  • I want to walk through some of the steps

  • because I can't even really imagine

  • all of the steps that went on.

  • First of all, it's the first show back in a pandemic.

  • -Yeah. -What was it like?

  • I didn't want to go up and bother anybody.

  • -It -- It was nuts.

  • I mean, you and I were there

  • for the first show after September 11th.

  • -Yeah.

  • -And when anthrax was in the building, I believe.

  • -Oh, yeah. -That was another doozy.

  • -Do you remember that?

  • -That was crazy.

  • And I feel like there was a reminiscent feeling of

  • there was -- you were in the center of everything going on.

  • And honestly, "SNL's" been doing -- they're doing

  • an unbelievable job of making you feel safe.

  • Everyone's tested every single time we walk in, but it's "SNL."

  • Everything happens at the last minute,

  • you know, in order to get the best show possible on the air.

  • So imagine that with, like, PPE and masks

  • and people spread apart.

  • It's wild.

  • It was so strange

  • and yet so comforting because the minute

  • you're in that building and you hear the music, you're like,

  • "Oh, life's back to normal again."

  • -Yeah.

  • -With just some little alterations.

  • -How was the script and cue cards?

  • How do you deal with rehearsing?

  • -Dude, that's also crazy. I mean, think about it.

  • Think about our beloved cue card crew

  • having to write everything down and then changes

  • but in a time of molasses.

  • So they're like -- you know, with masks everything is slower.

  • -Yeah. -The protocol's slower.

  • I think scripts are on iPads right now, by the way,

  • which is also like a future language

  • that you and I never experienced.

  • We're used to, like, you talk to somebody.

  • They write it down. They get it to scripty.

  • They get the changes in. They go to cue cards.

  • I didn't see my lines that I said on the show until air.

  • So it was really scary. -No way.

  • -It was so scary.

  • I was not even thinking about what Kamala speaks like.

  • I was just worried, like, "Do I have pants on?

  • Are we -- Is -- Like, is there a booger hanging out?

  • Like, is everything okay?"

  • And then, later on, I was like, "Well, there's the impression."

  • Me, like, terrified out of my wits,

  • looking at the wrong cameras, like I was out of my body.

  • -No, it was perfect.

  • You had pants on and you nailed it, by the way. It was great.

  • -I'm so grateful, always, to be a part of that place.

  • And then, like, when, in my wildest dreams,

  • did I think there would ever be a candidate

  • that looks remotely close to whatever this is?

  • It -- The whole thing is -- -It just worked.

  • -And I realize, like, I started working there 21 years ago.

  • How am I still standing? -Yeah.

  • Isn't it great? -How am I still standing?

  • Yeah. -I love it because you're funny.

  • -I love it.

  • -When Vice President Biden announced Kamala Harris

  • as his running mate, you were, somehow,

  • on a Zoom interview thing or something, live.

  • You can't write this.

  • And you're on live,

  • and somebody says, "He just chose Kamala Harris."

  • And you were so human and so real, your first reaction was...

  • -Was, "Oh, [bleep]." -Yeah.

  • -You know why? Because we're in the middle of a pandemic.

  • -I know we are. I know we are.

  • -I was like, "How am I gonna get to New York?

  • Oh, [bleep]." -Yeah.

  • -That's complicated.

  • That's really complicated because it's my civic duty.

  • I got to do it.

  • I got to get there and do whatever I need to do

  • to make sure that she wins this election

  • and also that I do a good job.

  • And how the hell do I do that?

  • Because I haven't left my house in seven months.

  • -You did a virtual event with Senator Harris,

  • and Amy Poehler was there and Hillary Clinton.

  • -How about that? -All at the same time.

  • Was that your first time me-- -That was nuts.

  • Yeah, that was the first time I met Kamala and Hillary.

  • We don't hang out that much.

  • I have never met those incredible women.

  • And it was bananas, and 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."

  • Like, the coolest -- -Yeah.

  • -"Hanging out with my grandkids."

  • And then poor Poehler's sound went out and she was so upset

  • 'cause, you know, she is ver--

  • she's a very, like, professional lady.

  • And she was not pleased that her sound went out

  • 'cause it was not her fault.

  • And I was trying to, like, come up with, you know,

  • like, do some, like, wacky shabba-shabba.

  • And I said, "Man, it's sabotage."

  • And right away Hillary chimed in.

  • She goes, "It's probably the Russians."

  • -Oh, nice!

  • Score. -For the win. Score.

  • -She shoots, she scores. I love it.

  • -What a stud. -Well, speaking of scoring,

  • how about this segue?

  • You scored so hard as Kamala that, my friend,

  • you won an Emmy for that performance.

  • So, congrats.

  • I'm not the only one who thinks it's awesome.

  • -Thank you. Crazy.

  • -Then you won another Emmy!

  • You won two Emmys! -Yes.

  • I double-Emmy'd. -You double --

  • Have you -- I know you've been nominated before.

  • Have you ever won before?

  • -I've never won anything in my life.

  • Like, I won -- I won that first Emmy for "Big Mouth" really,

  • truly, genuinely, like, not expecting anything.

  • And then I was nominated for "SNL."

  • And I was like, "Ooh, now I want another one."

  • Like, I became an addict, like, overnight.

  • -You got the bug. -I was like,

  • "I want to win again." -Yeah.

  • Well, it's about to go down. -"Give it to me again."

  • -Yeah. Give it to me again. -Yeah.

  • -I want to talk to you about "Hubie Halloween."

  • -Okay. -Alright.

  • More with Maya Rudolph when we come back, everybody.

-Maya! -Hi.

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