Harris Makes Surprise Appearance on ‘SNL,’ Drawing Alarm from FCC Commissioner

Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in the final days before the Nov. 5 election, playing herself as the mirror-image double of Maya Rudolph’s version of her in the show’s cold open. A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner on Sunday said that the Democratic presidential candidate’s “SNL” appearance may have violated the agency’s rule about equal time being given to candidates. “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule,” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote on the social platform X late on Saturday night. “The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct—a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns,” Carr wrote in the post....