Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Running Mate Tim Kaine Shows Up On SNL

Saturday Night Live is racking up the Vice Presidents and would-be Vice Presidents tonight, plus some Margaret Atwood and porn stars.

Alright, it was Sarah Sherman playing the Handmaid’s Tale author and Aurora Snow was only name checked on the NBC sketch show’s What’s That Name?: Election Edition. Still, Kamala Harris really did show up in the cold open, and the current VP wasn’t the only person to be second on a national ticket to be in Studio 8H.

“This is the most important election in American history,” said keener contestant Ben, played by tonight’s SNL host John Mulaney. “Democracy is on the line,” he added. However, for all the importance and hyperbole, turns out Ben was all passion and bluster and no memory.

Especially when it came to Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.

“I was Hillary Clinton‘s vice presidential running mate at the time,” the Democrats’ 2016 VP pick pleaded to quizzled faces. “You said it was the most important election in American history, and that democracy was on the line. It’s been less than eight years. What’s my name?”

The best the senator got was current VP nominee Gov. Tim Walz (they do look a lot alike, and there’s the name thing) or Tim Scott, the Republican South Carolina senator.

“You voted for me to be one heartbeat away from the Oval Office in an election more recent than the release of Zootopia,” Kaine derided Mulaney’s annoying and arrogant Ben. “What’s my name?”

Still no luck.

There may be second acts in American life, but not much of an attention span.

In what is unsurprisingly turning out to be a politics-packed SNL just days before the close race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for president comes to a head, the Kaine cameo was witty but destined to be overshadowed by the appearance by the Veep with Maya Rudolph at the top of the show.