--- title: Rosie O'Donnell Transforms Into Steve Bannon in a Photo description: After being asked by fans to play Steve Bannon on 'Saturday Night Live,' Rosie O'Donnell has posted a picture of herself as Bannon canonical: https://time.com/4667017/rosie-odonnel-steve-bannon-photo/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-10T18:03:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T12:07:03.000Z og:title: Rosie O'Donnell Transforms Into Steve Bannon, Is Ready for SNL og:description: You have to see it to believe it og:url: https://time.com/4667017/rosie-odonnel-steve-bannon-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rosie O'Donnell Transforms Into Steve Bannon, Is Ready for SNL twitter:description: You have to see it to believe it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rosie O'Donnell Transforms Into Steve Bannon to Prove She's Ready for _Saturday Night Live_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:07 PM UTCPublished: Feb 10, 2017 6:03 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:07 PM UTCPublished: Feb 10, 2017 6:03 PM UTC After [Melissa McCarthy’s popular turn as Sean Spicer on _Saturday Night Live_ last week](http://time.com/4661057/sean-spicer-melissa-mccarthy-snl/), the Internet was quick to suggest that comedian [Rosie O’Donnell](http://time.com/4509451/madonna-rosie-odonnell-donald-trump/) who has long been embroiled in a heated feud with the President, would be a perfect fit to play [Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon](http://time.com/4657665/steve-bannon-donald-trump/). While there’s no official confirmation that O’Donnell will be [joining Alec Baldwin](http://time.com/4660557/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-saturday-night-live-steven-bannon/) and McCarthy as the latest in a string of memorable celebrity impressions on the late-night sketch show, O’Donnell has changed her profile picture on Twitter to an image that a fan created which Photoshops her head onto Bannon’s body, which has earned the approval of her fans, including a shout-out from some very high-profile admirers — none other than the inimitable George Takei and Patton Oswalt. Your move, _SNL_. > [](https://twitter.com/TheJohnnySmith/status/829082679152828416) > [](https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/829884219660832770) > [](https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/829877256466137088) > [](https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/829874290229022720) Update: O’Donnell’s reps told [TheWrap](http://www.thewrap.com/rosie-odonnell-will-not-play-steve-bannon-snl/) that she would not be portraying Bannon on _Saturday Night Live_ this week. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4667017/rosie-odonnel-steve-bannon-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4667017/rosie-odonnel-steve-bannon-photo/"},"headline":"Rosie O'Donnell Transforms Into Steve Bannon to Prove She's Ready for Saturday Night Live","datePublished":"2017-02-10T18:03:29.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T12:07:03.000Z","description":"You have to see it to believe it","url":"https://time.com/4667017/rosie-odonnel-steve-bannon-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","twitter","entertainment","celebrity","Donald Trump","Culture","steve bannon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4667017/rosie-odonnel-steve-bannon-photo/","name":"Rosie O'Donnell Transforms Into Steve Bannon to Prove She's Ready for Saturday Night Live"}}]}] ```