Vice President Kamala Harris was criticized Sunday for flying to New York City to do a skit on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) after ultimately not speaking to podcast host Joe Rogan.

Harris appeared as the mirror image of Maya Rudolph, who regularly plays the vice president on SNL, in a last-minute appearance just days before the election.

Rogan recently revealed that the Harris campaign contacted Rogan about speaking with the podcast host, demanding that Rogan travel to her for it and saying their interview could only last an hour. Trump’s interview with Rogan lasted three hours.

Critics, including Sen. Ted Cruz, blasted the vice president for the way she ran her campaign and for refusing to sit down with Rogan when she was prepared to fly to New York to do SNL.

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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) senior Republican Brendan Carr argued on social media that SNL was circumventing the FCC’s “equal time” rule. Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told Fox News Channel’s Jacqui Heinrich that SNL had not extended an invitation to Trump. She added that executive producer Lorne Michaels said last month that he had no plans to invite either candidate.

SNL creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels recently said he had not and had no intention of contacting the presidential candidates for a possible cameo ahead of the election.

Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter that it would be unlikely that Trump or Harris would appear for the show’s landmark 50th anniversary season, citing the need for “equal time” for both of them.

“You can’t include the actual people running for office because of the election laws and the equal time provisions,” Michaels said. “You can’t have major candidates without having all the candidates, and there are a lot of minor candidates who are only on the ballot in three states and that becomes very complicated.”

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“That @Kamala Harris decided to do a scripted Saturday Night Live sketch instead of sitting down for a substantive conversation with Joe Rogan perfectly sums up the boring, insular and condescending way she has run her entire campaign” , journalism professor Michael Shellenberger wrote on X .

He also sounded the alarm about the “equal time” provision, saying the Harris sketch was “humanizing.”

“Although some say it’s cringe-inducing, I found it very humanizing. In a tight election, it’s exactly the kind of thing that could move voters with little information. That’s why the law requires NBC to give Trump equal time,” Shellenberger wrote on X. .

Rogan explained during an interview that Harris had an open invitation to sit down with him.

“You might look at this and say, ‘Oh, you’re a diva,’ but she had the opportunity to come here when she was in Texas, and I literally gave them an open invitation. I said anytime. I said if she’s done at ten, we’ll come back here at ten. I go, I do it at nine in the morning, I do it at ten at night, I do it at midnight if she’s awake, if she wants to, have a Red Bull,” Rogan told podcast host and satirist Konstantin Kisin.

“She even reached out when she found out (Trump) was coming. So their camp reached out to me. So I said, ‘Great, I’d love to talk to her.’ But it was very difficult to capture it. They wanted to travel, and look, the thing is… if I go somewhere, there will be other people in the room And they want to control a lot of things, me. I’m sure,” Rogan said.

Radio host Ari Hoffman pointed out that Harris’ performance was similar to SNL’s 2015 skit with Trump, in which Jimmy Fallon played Trump and showed the then-presidential candidate as Fallon’s mirror image.

Harris appeared in the sketch alongside her impersonator, Maya Rudolph, at the end of the cold open. In the sketch, Harris appears as a reflection in a mirror to give advice to Rudolph’s Harris.

Others celebrated the appearance, including MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg, who said she was “so excited”!

Buzzfeed’s Spencer Althouse also said Harris was “great” on SNL.

David Rutz and Lindsay Kornick of Fox News contributed to this report.