Jim Carrey To Play Joe Biden on ‘SNL’

Legendary comedian Jim Carrey has been chosen to play Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live‘s upcoming 46th season.

The show’s producer Lorne Michaels shared the news with Vulture,

“Maya Rudolph is coming back, and Alec [Baldwin] will be back. And I think Jim Carrey is going to do Biden.”

“There was some interest on his part. And then we responded, obviously, positively. But it came down to discussions about what the take was. He and Colin Jost had a bunch of talks. He and I as well. He will give the part energy and strength, and … [Laughs.] Hopefully it’s funny,” Michaels added.

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Michaels also added that when the show returns in October, there will be a limited audience. This will be the first time extra people have been in the studio since the COVID-19 pandemic started.

“We need the audience, obviously,” said Michaels. “With comedy, when you don’t hear the response, it’s just different. With the kind of comedy we do, which quite often is broad, timing gets thrown off without an audience. And for me, what is most important is when you’re absolutely certain of some piece on Wednesday, and then the dress-rehearsal audience sees it on Saturday and tells you you’re wrong. . . .I think us coming back and accomplishing the show will lead to — I hate to use the word normalcy — but it’s a thing that is part of our lives coming back, in whatever form it ends up coming back. So the physical problems of doing it — number of people who can be in the studio, number of people who can be in the control room, how you separate the band so that they’re not in any jeopardy — all of those are part of the meetings we’ve been having.”

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