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Saturday," Broecker continues, explaining that SNL's
planned cold open was based on the previous evening's
speech, when Biden and Harris had urged unity for the
country.
At 8 p.m., Broecker was watching the dress rehears-
al on a monitor, with Biden (Jim Carrey) and Harris
(Maya Rudolph) in their Friday-night outfits. His ACD,
Ashley Dudek, flipped on the computer to watch live
coverage of Biden's speech. Harris made her appear-
ance about 8:30 p.m., dressed to honor both suffrag-
ettes and the history-making female politicians who pre-
ceded her. Broecker recalls exclaiming, "Oh my god,
she's wearing white!" Dudek madly screen-grabbed
all the details—the pussy bow blouse, the lapels, the
shoes, the jewelry—and by 8:45 p.m. the hunt was on.
Dudek scrambled through SNL's stockrooms, finding
charmeuse options for the blouse, and ransacking the
"political room" for white clothing. In a deliciously iron-
ic twist, they found a double-breasted suit shopped for
a Melania Trump sketch that never aired. The suit had
actually been returned, but Broecker had repurchased
it. "We're going to need this at some point and it's going
to be impossible to find," he remembers thinking. "So
two years later, here we are, we needed that suit!" The
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Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer
Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway/Pennywise
