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Alec Baldwin: ‘SNL’ Would Have Skipped Trump COVID Jokes If President Was “Truly, Gravely Ill”
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deadline.comGreg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAlec Baldwin yesterday defended Saturday Night Live‘s inclusion of jokey references to President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, saying the show likely would not have gone near the subject if “there was ever the suggestion that Trump was truly, gravely ill.”In an Instagram video posted yesterday, Baldwin, who plays Trump on the NBC sketch show, said, “If there was ever the suggestion that Trump was truly, gravely ill, if people said, ‘Oh, Trump is really in trouble,’ I bet you everything I have that we wouldn’t even get near that in terms of the content of the show.
They would have done something else; I’ve seen that happen before.” On Saturday’s show, Baldwin played Trump to Jim Carrey’s Joe.
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