Kamala Harris was harshly criticized for her “skewed” SNL appearance just days before the election

Vice President Kamala Harris was criticized on Sunday for flying to New York City to do a sketch on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) after she ended up not meeting with podcast host Joe Rogan.

Harris appeared in a last-minute appearance just days before the election as the mirror image of Maya Rudolph, who regularly plays the vice president on SNL.

Rogan recently revealed that the Harris campaign had asked Rogan to meet with the podcast host, required Rogan to travel to her for it, and said the interview could only last an hour. Trump's interview with Rogan lasted three hours.

Critics, including Sen. Ted Cruz, criticized the vice president for the way she ran her campaign and for refusing to sit down with Rogan despite agreeing to fly to NYC to do SNL.

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Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) ranking Republican, argued on social media that SNL circumvented the FCC's “concurrent” rule. Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told Fox News Channel's Jacqui Heinrich that SNL did not invite Trump. She added that executive producer Lorne Michaels said just last month that he had no plans to invite either contestant.

SNL creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels recently said he has not contacted the presidential candidates for a possible cameo before the election and has no plans not to.

Michaels told The Hollywood Reporter it was unlikely that Trump or Harris would appear in the show's 50th anniversary season, citing the need for “equal time” for both.

“Because of election laws and equal opportunity regulations, you can't bring the actual candidates,” Michaels said. “You can’t have the major candidates without having all the candidates, and there are a lot of minor candidates who are only on the ballot in about three states, and that gets really complicated.”

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“That @Kamala Harris chose to do a scripted Saturday Night Live skit rather than sit down for a substantive conversation with Joe Rogan perfectly captures the bland, insular and condescending manner in which she has run her entire campaign,” wrote journalism professor Michael Shellenberger on X.

He also sounded the alarm about the “concurrent” provision and said the Harris sketch was “humanizing.”

“While some say it's frightening, I found it very humane. In a close election, it's exactly the kind of thing that could move low-information voters, which is why the law requires NBC to give Trump equal time,” Shellenberger wrote on X.

Rogan explained during an interview that Harris had an open invitation to sit down with him.

“You could look at that and say, 'Oh, you're a diva,' but she had the opportunity to come here when she was in Texas and I literally gave them an open invitation. I said, “Anytime.” I said if she finishes at 10, we'll come back here at 10. I do it at nine in the morning, I do it at 10 p.m. I do it at midnight when she's awake. “If she feels like it, drink a Red Bull,” Rogan told podcast host and satirist Konstantin Kisin.

“She actually came forward when she found out (Trump) was there. So her camp reached out to me. So I said, 'Great, I'd like to talk to her.' But it was very difficult to pin it down. They wanted to travel, and see, the thing is…if I go somewhere, there will be other people in the room. And they want to control many things. “I’m sure,” Rogan said.

Radio host Ari Hoffman pointed out that Harris' appearance was similar to the SNL sketch with Trump in 2015, in which Jimmy Fallon played Trump, and depicted the then-presidential candidate as a mirror image of Fallon.

Harris appeared in the sketch alongside her impersonator Maya Rudolph at the end of the cold open. In the sketch, Harris appears as a mirror image to give advice to Rudolph's Harris.

Others celebrated the appearance, including MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg, who said she was “so excited!”

Buzzfeed's Spencer Althouse also said that Harris was “great” on SNL.

Fox News' David Rutz and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.