Donald Trump’s COVID Results Had ‘Saturday Night Live’ Scrambling, Says Lorne Michaels
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deadline.comGreg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSaturday Night Live writers were revising the season’s first cold open right up to the last minute after President Donald Trump’s positive COVID test tossed all plans into the air.In a new NBC News interview, SNL creator Lorne Michaels says the long-running sketch comedy show had a presidential debate sketch written for the Oct.
3 season premiere when news broke the day before about Trump’s illness. “It all changed,” Michaels tells Willie Geist on the upcoming Sunday Today With Willie Geist, “and it was being rewritten.
I don’t think the final version of it got to dress rehearsal.”The sketch, which featured Alec Baldwin’s Trump and the debut of Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden, drew the expected “too soon”.
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