#Maya Rudolph got a cryptic text about Kamala Harris from her ‘SNL’ boss

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Andrew Yang (Bowen Yang), Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) and Pete Buttigieg (Colin Jost) on “Saturday Night Live.”
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Maya Rudolph says she hasn’t gotten a call from Lorne Michaels yet to bring back her Kamala Harris impression to “SNL” — but she did get a cryptic text.

When the Hollywood Reporter asked the comedian, 48, if she heard from her former boss Michaels after the Democratic vice presidential candidate was announced, she said, “He sent me a GIF of myself, as Kamala, in sunglasses, sipping a cocktail and saying, ‘Oh no.’ That really made me laugh.”

Rudolph was on “Saturday Night Live” from 2000 to 2007, and she’s since come back to do impressions of the California senator. Most notably she returned to the show on Sept. 28, 2019, to do her rendition of Harris for “SNL’s” spoof of the Democratic Primary debate.

When Harris, 55, was announced as Joe Biden’s pick to be his running mate on Aug. 11, social media immediately began invoking Rudolph.

“The real winner today is Maya Rudolph,” Roxane Gay tweeted, while others posted GIFs of Rudolph as Harris.

Since leaving “SNL,” Rudolph, who’s partnered with “Phantom Thread” filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, has appeared in a wide variety of movies and TV shows, including “The Good Place,” animated comedy “Bless the Harts,” high-concept Amazon show “Forever,” and films such as “Bridesmaids” and “The Emoji Movie.”

Rudolph told THR that she’s in uncharted territory as far as what playing Harris could mean for her return to “SNL” when she’s no longer a cast member.

“Over the years, I’ve had to watch people come back and forth, but I’ve never been in a position like Alec Baldwin — who doesn’t even work there but is there every week,” she said. “I don’t know what this means. I don’t know what the hell is going to happen — nor does anybody else.”