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(The Hill) – Comedian and actor Steve Martin responded Tuesday to calls for him to depict Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on “Saturday Night Live,” after Walz was tapped as Vice President Harris’ running mate.

“I just learned that Tim Walz wants to go on the road with Marty Short,” Martin said on Threads.

Harris and Walz were officially certified Tuesday to top the Democratic ticket in November against former President Trump. The decision to elevate Walz follows a whirlwind couple of weeks for the Democratic Party, after President Biden dropped out of the race last month and endorsed the vice president to run instead.

Pointing out similar features between Martin and the now-VP nominee, many people online have urged the SNL alum to play the Minnesota governor on the show.

“So Steve Martin is definitely gonna play Walz on SNL, right?” comedy writer Abby Barr wrote in an X post shared Tuesday morning. That post, and similar calls for Martin to play Walz, have since received millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes.

Comedian/Actor Steve Martin arrives at the 2015 Vanity Fair post Oscar party in Beverly Hills, California. (Chris Farina/Corbis via Getty Images)

Martin’s fellow “SNL” alum Maya Rudolph is also reportedly coming back to reprise her role as Harris.

In 2022, Rudolph talked about an experience when she met Harris and her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, at a private dinner. According to the actor, Emhoff was “so excited that there were two Kamalas” at the dinner.

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