DNC Special With Kamala Harris Impersonator Allison Reese
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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There are few Americans who have had a crazier past month than Kamala Harris—but comedian Allison Reese is among them. Reese’s impression of the vice president was already a hit on social media before Harris picked up the baton from President Joe Biden, but it has blown up in a much bigger way since. In this episode, Reese talks about the wild ride she has been on as millions of followers eat up her deliciously spot-on take on the candidate’s cadence—especially her signature laugh—and the efforts she is taking not to inadvertently become a right-wing caricature. She also reveals why she wanted to impersonate Harris in her first audition for ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2019, what she made of former cast member Maya Rudolph’s very different approach to the impression, and why she believes her videos might have an even bigger political impact on TikTok than she would have had if she had been cast as Harris on SNL.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and welcome to our very special Democratic National Convention Week episode with the Woman of the Hour Kamala Harris. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay, to be fair, we did not land the first big interview with the vice president, but we do have the next best thing. |
| 0:24.0 | Joining me today on the show is comedian Alison Reese, whose spot-on impression of Kamala Harris has taken the internet by storm over the past several weeks. |
| 0:34.1 | If you haven't heard it yet, here's a little taste. |
| 0:43.3 | Nice, so much. If you haven't heard it yet, here's a little taste. My fellow, okay, Americans. We did it, Joe. |
| 0:45.3 | I am the perfect nominee for the |
| 0:50.3 | 2024 presidential election. |
| 0:52.3 | First off, I'm hilarious. Second off, I laugh. |
| 0:56.0 | People be like, she laughed too much. |
| 0:59.0 | Have you ever seen Donald Trump laugh? |
| 1:01.0 | I don't think he can. |
| 1:03.0 | I bet if he did laugh, it'd be something fucked up. |
| 1:06.0 | Here's my impression of Donald Trump laughing. |
| 1:08.0 | Ready? |
| 1:09.0 | Ah! |
| 1:10.0 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. impression of Donald Trump Lampin, ready? Ah! Because he a monster. |
| 1:16.6 | Allison has managed to capture the joy and occasionally the absurdity of Kamala Harris, almost as well as the candidate herself. |
| 1:25.6 | So I am so thrilled that she is on the show today |
| 1:29.1 | ahead of Harris's big speech at the DNC |
| 1:31.5 | to talk about how she developed her impression |
| 1:34.0 | and what it's been like to see it take off in popularity |
| 1:37.2 | right along with the Harris campaign. |
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