“I have to tell you, it has been an ,” says upon being asked about the mounting calls from the public, since ’s July 21 announcement that he will not be seeking reelection, for her to reprise her impersonation of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee , who she previously portrayed on the show in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Speaking exclusively to ’s podcast in front of an audience at the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood, Rudolph, who is currently nominated for Emmys — best comedy guest actress and best original music/lyrics for NBC’s , best comedy actress for Apple TV+’s and best character voiceover for Netflix’s — continued: “My phone has not stopped. It’s like if I had 50 grandmas and they were sending me articles like, ‘This is the thing I saw you were in!’ It’s non-fucking-stop.
And it’s fascinating because everybody’s excited about this idea, and I have nothing to do with it. It’s just happening in front of me. It’s wild.
” “It’s terribly exciting to be associated with, I’m not going to lie,” she continued, adding, “I could tell it was happening around me when Kamala was running the first time. This just feels a lot bigger. You mentioned [another politician she once impersonated], and I balked because I was like, ‘That wasn’t a good character.
’ But in those days, I never really played many political figures because there any that looked like me. That was just the truth of it. It wasn’t that I wasn’t good enou.