Sorry, Miley Cyrus. The fact that Hillary Clinton will be on Saturday Night Live may have overshadowed you're dual hosting and performing duties in the season 41 premiere on Saturday. 
 
 ET caught up with the presidential hopeful backstage at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on Friday, where Marc Anthony was performing the first of two sold-out shows (yes, you read that right -- the two have been friends for 15 years!), and Clinton was excited about her SNL cameo. 
 
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 "I love the impersonations of me, first by Amy [Poehler], who's a great friend, now by Kate [McKinnon]," she told ET. "I'm just thrilled that [Lorne Michaels has] got these amazing women doing these impersonations, and I want to see how it goes." 
 
 But how did Clinton get roped into the season premiere? Michaels simply asked! 
 
 What are friends for, right? 
 
 It must be a little strange not just seeing people do impersonations of you but also standing right there as they happen, but the 67-year-old former Secretary of State takes it all in stride. She even likes both comedienne's impersonations of her, and Clinton told us that she's "not just being diplomatic" by saying that, either. 
 
 "I have not seen as much of Kate yet, and Amy is a friend of mine -- we have known each other and done things together -- but they come at it from a slightly different perspective, and I learned something about myself from them pretending to be me," she said with a laugh. "So, I'm looking forward to spending the time with Kate." 
 
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 She'll surely get the chance to spend a lot of quality time with McKinnon, as a ton of rehearsals go into making the live show happen. Luckily, Clinton has tackled the prep work in the past. In 2008, she poked fun at herself alongside her then-comedic counterpart, Poehler. 
 
 "I've been on SNL before, and it is crazy," she admitted to ET. "You show up, and they're still writing it, and they're putting the airplane together in the air, and they're showing you what they want you to say and where they want you to stand, and then they say no they want it different." 
 
 "I love it because it's almost like a creative act that you're in the middle of and you're participating in, but you're also watching and learning from it," she added. 
 
 Poehler and McKinnon aren't the only two funny ladies who've played Clinton in the past. She was depicted by Jan Hooks while her husband, Bill Clinton, was president, and by Ana Gasteyer during her then-run for New York Senate. 
 
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 Clinton will reportedly be joining McKinnon for Saturday's opening sketch, according to the New York Times. We can't wait to see what the final product looks like -- and we're crossing our fingers that Cyrus also has a major role in that opener, too! 
 
 Take a peek at Cyrus' NSFW promos for Saturday's show in the video below. ||||| Slide Show 
 
 Live from New York… It’s Hillary Clinton! 
 
 Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to appear on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, the latest — and highest stakes — appearance of her current push to show her funny, personable side as the campaign heads into the critical first Democratic debate and she faces headwinds in Iowa and New Hampshire and a potential challenge from Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. 
 
 In a top-secret appearance that her campaign would not confirm, Mrs. Clinton will meet her comedic counterpart, Kate McKinnon, who has portrayed the former first lady to effusive praise as the latest “S.N.L.” member to don a blonde wig and attempt to bring to life the character of Mrs. Clinton. 
 
 In order to appear, Mrs. Clinton turned down the chance to give the keynote address to the influential Human Rights Campaign, the country’s most powerful lesbian and gay rights group, which will allow her to make the debut “S.N.L.” appearance of her 2016 campaign, said several people with knowledge of her schedule who could not discuss private planning for attribution. 
 
 She is expected to pop in to join Ms. McKinnon as part of the so-called cold open skit, these people said. A spokeswoman for NBC declined to comment. 
 
 Both the show and NBC were hoping to make the appearance a splashy surprise. The show’s creator, Lorne Michaels, is well known for being tight-lipped about guests and has even changed the lineup at the last minute, which is still a possibility with Mrs. Clinton, whose own schedule is also fluid, these people said. 
 
 In the proposed skit, Mrs. Clinton would likely poke fun at herself for trying to appear more authentic while carefully plotting her path to the presidency. Ms. McKinnon, an unabashed Clinton supporter, told The Times’s Maureen Dowd that Mrs. Clinton was “a staunch, passionate lady, and in our culture, unfortunately, there’s something funny about that.” 
 
 In the opening skit on the night before Mrs. Clinton’s announcement in April, Ms. McKinnon, as Mrs. Clinton, prepared for her 2016 run with the help of her red-headed assistant, Kristina (based on the Clinton campaign’s deputy communications director, Kristina Schake). 
 
 “Meet my hand in the air!” Ms. McKinnon says, poking fun at the woodenness of Mrs. Clinton’s high-five. 
 
 “S.N.L.” has had a long history of depicting Mrs. Clinton. During the Clinton administration, the comedian Jan Hooks was Mrs. Clinton to Phil Hartman’s Bill Clinton. (Ms. Hooks’s Hillary got into a fistfight with Senator Bob Dole.) During Mrs. Clinton’s run for the Senate in New York, Ana Gasteyer portrayed her as a politician desperately trying to appear domestic. (“I can’t wait to prepare some food dishes in this kitchen, such as salads and toast,” Ms. Gasteyer’s Hillary says from her kitchen in Chappaqua, N.Y.) 
 
 But the truly memorable impression came during the 2008 presidential campaign when the pants-suit-wearing Amy Poehler portrayed Mrs. Clinton, eventually teaming up with Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin, to comedic gold and a ratings sensation for the long-running late-night show. 
 
 In one skit about sexism in the 2008 race, Ms. Fey’s Palin says “Please, stop photo-shopping my head on sexy bikini pictures!” Ms. Poehler’s Hillary adds, “And stop saying I have cankles!” 
 
 (Mrs. Clinton, at one point, sneaked off the campaign trail in 2008 to make a surprise appearance alongside Ms. Poehler in a skit that mocked news media bias to Senator Barack Obama and Mrs. Clinton’s guffaw of a laugh.) 
 
 In an odd instance of reality imitating art, Mrs. Clinton alluded to an “S.N.L.” skit during a Democratic debate in Ohio in 2008. “In the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time,” she told the moderators, who in the “S.N.L.” skit were accused of favoring Mr. Obama. “I don’t mind. I’ll be happy to field it,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I do find it curious and if anybody saw ‘Saturday Night Live,’ maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and needs another pillow.” 
 
 The appearance this Saturday, which one source cautioned could change if anything urgent came up on the campaign at the last minute, comes after Mrs. Clinton’s recent stints on NBC’s “Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “Lenny,” an online newsletter founded by the comedian and actress Lena Dunham. 
 
 Mrs. Clinton declined to say whose “S.N.L.” impersonation she prefers. “Amy’s a friend of mine, and Kate’s doing a great job,” she told CNN in July. “You’re not going to get me to pick one or the other. I think I’m the best Hillary Clinton, to be honest.” 
 
 Video
– Kate McKinnon is dressed down ("real-person down," without makeup and in sneakers and a baggy tee) and skittish like a cat, reacting so warily to her interview with Lili Anolik for Vanity Fair that Anolik realizes she's "going to have to approach her slowly, carefully, no false moves." The writer dives into the career of McKinnon, whom she calls "perhaps the most gifted of a gifted generation of young comics," reaching back to her first forays into comedy at Columbia and her stint with the Upright Citizens Brigade improv group, and culminating with her current turn on SNL, where she's impersonated everyone from Kellyanne Conway and Elizabeth Warren to Jeff Sessions. But it's her portrayal of Hillary Clinton, the foil to Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump, that has touched an unexpected nerve and propelled her to household-name status. Anolik points out the "intense, instinctive, and visceral" interaction between the two actors. She also notes how McKinnon's Hillary has more "pathos" than versions by previous SNL actors, including Jan Hooks and Amy Poehler. That pathos was born out of the connection McKinnon forged while trying to channel what she believed may have been Clinton's private thoughts. "I started to feel very close to her, just trying to imagine her inner life," McKinnon says. The subject of the real Hillary is broached, though Anolik notes that "Kate actually says very little … because she gets too overwhelmed to say it." The cat that is McKinnon also backs away on "soft, padded paws" when Anolik brings up her personal life, which "since I'm no cop and Kate's certainly no criminal … I lean across the table and switch off the tape recorder." Anolik's full piece on McKinnon is here.