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Bowen Yang Begged Lorne Michaels “Don’t Make Me” Play JD Vance On ‘SNL’

Although Bowen Yang doesn't want to play JD Vance on 'Saturday Night Live', he gives the impersonation his all.

Bowen Yang as JD Vance on 'Saturday Night Live'Will Heath/NBC The Saturday Night Live star recalled asking Lorne Michaels “please, please, please don’t make me do this” after he was cast in the “challenging” role the vice president on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show. “First of all — God’s honest truth, I really do my best with him, but every time I have to play him, I go to Lorne and I say, ‘You can do a buyback. Yang debuted his Vance impression during the star-studded, pre-election cold open of SNL ‘s Season 50 premiere in September, along with Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris, Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff and Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz.

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