Seth Meyers blasts Republicans for ‘whining’ about Kamala Harris on ‘SNL’

Seth Meyers is tired of Republicans complaining about Kamala Harris’ Saturday Night Live cameo.

The comedian went on a tirade about the backlash against the vice president’s semi-confidential SNL appearance during the “Closer Look” segment of Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday.

“An exhausted and seemingly despondent Donald Trump closes out his campaign with rambling speeches to dwindling crowds, threats of violence, baseless allegations of cheating, floats the possibility of banning vaccines and complaints about Saturday Night Live,” the host began, joking that the former president is saddened by Meyers’ departure from SNL a decade ago. “Is it that he misses me on ‘(Weekend) Update’? Oh, if it’s not, then f— him!”

Harris made a brief appearance on Saturday’s episode of SNL in the cold open sketch where Maya Rudolph’s version of Harris looked in a mirror to hype herself up before election night and saw the real vice president on the other side.

The Democratic nominee’s 90-second appearance on the show drew criticism from conservatives, including Trump-appointed FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who argued that the cameo constituted “a clear and obvious effort to evade FCC’s Equal Time Rule” — the rule ensuring that “no legally qualified candidate for office is unfairly given less access to the airwaves — outside of bona fide news exemptions — than their opponent.”

Giving the Trump campaign equal time to Harris’ SNL appearance, NBC aired a 90-second message from the former president in which he claimed a Harris presidency would trigger a “depression” and implored viewers to “go vote.”

Elsewhere in the “Closer Look” segment, Meyers mocked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) for his remarks about SNL. “Even yesterday Kamala Harris was apparently on a plane headed to Michigan, they called her,” you’ll join Saturday Night Live?’ And then, you know, made a U-turn and went to Saturday Night Live — contrary to the law, by the way,” Rubio said in a clip from a rally that aired below Late evening segment. “But my only hope was, I hope she kept laughing Saturday Night Live in front of millions of people, she was just heard laughing for a few minutes, because that’s probably worth 2-3 million votes right there.”

Meyers was stunned by Rubio’s statements. “Marco Rubio, this is how you think it works?” he asked. “Lorne calls a presidential candidate a few hours before the show and they have their plane do a U-turn? I would think that’s a violation of the law – the Aviation Act.”

Later in the segment, Meyers reiterated, “This is how they choose to end their campaign: rampant allegations of cheating, whining about comedy shows, floating plans to ban vaccines and threatening to retaliate against enemies, banning polls and punishing speech they don’t like .”

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