Name: Maya Rudolph Found Her Return to SNL Strange and Comforting
Uploaded: 2020-10-27T18:16:20.000Z
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-Oh, it's so good to see you. I like -- Oh, my gosh.

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

Congrats on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend.

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

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

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

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."

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

So imagine that with, like, PPE and masks

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

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

having to write everything down and then changes

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

-When Vice President Biden announced Kamala Harris

on a Zoom interview thing or something, live.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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