Mitt Romney is seriously considering taking up “Saturday Night Live” on its invitation to appear on the show, campaign sources said yesterday.
Lorne Michaels, the show’s longtime producer, said last weekend that he had invited the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to guest on the late-night comedy show.
“I’ll take a look at that,” Romney told ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer yesterday. “That sounds like a lot of fun. Why not?
“And, of course, it would depend on the nature of the skit. I want it to be funny.”
A source in the Romney campaign yesterday told The Post that the “SNL” invitation was kicking around the upper levels of the campaign since last week, and that it was a real possibility.
Sarah Palin appeared on the show in 2008 when she was running for vice president — one of the most-watched episodes in the show’s long history.
And the people around Romney are looking for his “saxophone moment” — referring to Bill Clinton’s show-stopping, 1990 appearance on Arsenio Hall’s show, where he jammed with the show’s band on “Heartbreak Hotel” and sent a message that he was from a new generation of politicians.