Alec Baldwin returns to 'Saturday Night
Live' to spoof Bret Baier interview with Kamala Harris
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[October 21, 2024]
NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin has returned to “Saturday Night
Live.”
But the actor who won an Emmy for playing former President Donald Trump
didn't reprise that role — he returned Saturday night to play Fox News'
Bret Baier in an opening skit that spoofed this week's interview with
Kamala Harris. |
This combination of photos shows Alec Baldwin, left, attending the 2019
PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History, May
21, 2019, in New York, and Maya Rudolph, right, arriving at the season
two photo call for "Loot," March 21, 2024, in West Hollywood, Calif.
(Photos by Evan Agostini, left, and Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) |
Baldwin received loud cheers from the audience before revealing
he was playing Baier, who he joked, “Yes, I do look like someone
made a businessman in Minecraft.”
Rudolph's Harris nervously laughed after shaking hands with
Baldwin's Baier, saying, “The pleasure is neither of ours.”
The skit poked fun at Baier's real-life interruptions of Harris,
with Baldwin repeatedly interrupting Rudolph in rapid-fire
fashion.
Rudolph, after several interruptions to the first question: “May
I please finish?”
Baldwin: “I'm asking you to.”
Rudolph: “Well, then you have to listen.”
Baldwin: “Well I can't because I'm talking.”
Rudolph: "Well, When will you stop?"
"Maybe when I go to bed," Baldwin responded, with the audience
laughing loudly.
The skit also mocked a moment Baier acknowledged was a mistake
by playing the wrong clip of a Trump response.
The clips allowed “SNL” to bring in mini-skits including one
with Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden, who has played the role
since the beginning of the comedy sketch show's 50th season.
The skit closed — many interruptions later — with Harris asking:
“Before I go, can I just say the thing I've been trying to say
this whole time? Live from New York, it's Saturday night!”, with
Baldwin joining her.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" star Michael Keaton is hosting
Saturday's show, with Billie Eilish the musical host.
Baldwin has hosted “SNL” a record 17 times, but hasn’t appeared
on it recently. His involuntary manslaughter trial over the
fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the film
“Rust” ended in July in a mistrial.
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