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Dana Carvey says SNL asked him to play Biden before he dropped out of race: 'Maybe you'll appear as a ghost'

Dana Carvey says Lorne Michaels asked him to play Joe Biden on 'Saturday Night Live' season 50 before the president dropped out of the 2024 race: 'Maybe you'll appear as a ghost.'

"And then there was that — let's just call it eccentric debate with Trump, and then that other thing happened with Biden," he added, referring to the president dropping out of the race on July 21. Carvey went on to explain how his experience cultivating a Biden impression on his podcast helped inform the performance he gave on SNL. Dana Carvey as Joe Biden, Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris, and Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz backstage at 'Saturday Night Live'.

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