Actor Alec Baldwin returned to NBC’s Saturday Night Live, not to reprise his role as Donald Trump, but this time to play Fox News anchor Bret Baier to spoof his interview with Democrat selectee Kamala Harris.
During the show’s cold open, Baldwin revealed he was playing Baier, who he joked, “Yes, I do look like someone made a businessman in Minecraft.”
Harris, played by Maya Rudolph, nervously laughed after shaking hands with Baldwin’s Baier, saying, “The pleasure is neither of ours.”
The skit attempted to carry water for the media shills who argued that Baier was “rude” to Harris, as Baldwin constantly interrupted Rudolph, who was played in a more confident light than the actual interview showed.
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.
Rudolph’s Harris also spoke about her record as a former prosecutor and dished out lines for viral TikTok memes which she insisted she wasn’t doing.
The skit also featured a dancing former President Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, during his recent town hall in Pennsylvania, and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden, who has played the role since the beginning of the comedy sketch show’s 50th season.
Baldwin had hosted SNL a record 17 times, but hasn’t appeared on it recently in light of his involuntary manslaughter trial over the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the film Rust, which ended in a mistrial in July.
Harris had a shaky performance during her heated interview with Baier last week, where she struggled to answer basic questions about her record on illegal immigration, and kept pivoting to attack Trump.
Freedom Toons’ take on Harris’s interview may have more closely represented her actual performance than SNL:
Media says Kamala "REKT" Bret Baier ???🤣 pic.twitter.com/46wYUJcKcO
— FreedomToons (@Freedom_Toons) October 18, 2024