Kaitlan Collins in ‘SNL’ live audience to see impersonation of himself, meets cast member

Kaitlan Collins was in the house just days before the US presidential election to see Kaitlan Collins on “Saturday Night Live”.

The CNN anchor and Alabama resident posted online that she attended the performance, which featured “SNL” cast member Chloe Fineman reprising her impersonation during the cold open segment. Vice President Kamala Harris also appeared in the same sketch, coming face-to-face with her “SNL” counterpart Maya Rudolph.

Also appearing earlier in the sketch were James Austin Johnson as former President Donald Trump, Bowen Yang as Senator JD Vance, Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden.

“It was fun to be in the audience for this,” Collins posted on X/Twitter.

Fineman posted an Instagram story after the show with a photo of her with Collins on the “SNL” stage. “WANTED to play and (then) finally meet @kaitlancollins!” Collins reposted the story to her IG stories.

It was the third time Fineman played Collins during the 50th season of the iconic late night sketch comedy show.

In the season premiere, with host Jean Smart and musical guest Jelly Roll, Fineman’s version of Collins appeared in a parody of Charlie Yang’s Charlie XCX asked Fineman’s Collins questions outside her comfort zone in politics.

Collins said her phone “started blowing up” while she was in Tuscaloosa for the Alabama-Georgia game on September 28. “The ‘Bama game had just ended and I was still in the stadium,” she said. “My phone was at about five percent and I thought it was about the game.

And on Oct. 12, with host Ariana Grande and musical guest Stevie Nicks, Fineman once again played Collins in a cold open when she threw in “Family Feud” after the skit said former President Donald Trump didn’t agree to a second debate with Harris .

In 2023, CNN announced that Collins would take over the network’s central 8 p.m. primetime slot, previously occupied by Chris Cuomo, who the network fired in December 2021. The news came after the Alabama native co-moderated CNN’s Republican town hall with former President Donald Trump that month. New Hampshire. Collins’ handling of the event divided critics and viewers, with Variety and Puck reporting that CNN planned to give her the primetime slot permanently after publicly supporting her town hall appearance.

Collins, 32, became CNN’s youngest-ever chief White House correspondent at the age of 29. “Since joining CNN in 2017, she has become one of the country’s most influential journalists because of her tough questions, objective reporting and signature style,” a CNN release said. “Kaitlan has covered numerous impactful stories from both the Biden and Trump administrations, including major policy decisions and major personnel changes, and has traveled extensively around the world reporting on their presidencies. Collins also reported on the Senate special elections in her home state of Alabama.”

Collins replaced Jim Acosta as chief White House correspondent in 2021. When she joined the network in 2017, Collins covered the Trump White House and quickly rose to the top of her field. She covered Biden for a year and a half before becoming co-host of “CNN This Morning.”

Collins is a native of Prattville and graduated from the University of Alabama in 2014.