It’s an election year and with all of the media frenzy and speculation, a bevy of new faces have stoically entered the national political fray. This sort of national political exposure comes for these career civil servants at a major inflection point for the country. So, naturally, this means that their parody equivalents will mock everything about them when they appear in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller for Saturday Night Live in a matter of weeks.

SNL returns for its 50th season with new episodes on Sept. 28, while the presidential election is set for Nov. 5. This gives the sketch comedy series six episodes before the race is decided to perfect caricatures of our nation’s next leaders. News broke last week that SNL alum and comedy superwoman Maya Rudolph will return to portray Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris (and let’s face it, would we ever want anyone else?...