It’s an election year and with all of the media frenzy and speculation, a bevy of new faces have stoically entered the national political fray. This sort of national political exposure comes for these career civil servants at a major inflection point for the country. So, naturally, this means that their parody equivalent will mock everything about them when they appear in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller for in a matter of weeks.
returns for its 50th season with new episodes on Sept. 28 while the presidential election is set for Nov. 5.
This gives the sketch comedy series six episodes before the race is decided to perfect caricatures of our nation’s next leaders. News broke last week that alum and comedy superwoman (and let’s face it, would we ever want anyone else?). With his Alec Baldwin is available to return to his Emmy-winning turn as Donald Trump — or perhaps current castmember James Austin Johnson, who has portrayed the former president over the last few years, will reprise the role.
This leaves the comic actors who will portray J.D. Vance and , the two veep candidates, yet to be cast.
Of course, online speculation began the moment that their respective attachments to the GOP and Democratic tickets were announced, and within 48 hours, one of the obvious candidates publicly stated his lack of interest (more on that below). So, who should it be? The trick with an impression is to extract the nuance of their speech, any idiosyncrasies or mannerisms, and — you betcha!.