Author: Jackie Strause / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Saturday Night Live went after one of its own on Saturday night.
Alec Baldwin’s Trump was missing from the Nov. 3 episode of the 44th season of the NBC sketch series, but the actor himself made it into the cold open in the form of a jab at his own expense.
At the end of a Fox News sketch that saw Kate McKinnon as Laura Ingraham and Cecily Strong as Jeanine Pirro pushing caravan fear-mongering onto the Ingraham Angle audience, McKinnon’s Ingraham said before heading to break, “When we come back, an update from disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin — seen here molesting a young Boy Scout.” The show then jumped to a photo of a shirtless Baldwin sitting next to Adam Sander from their 1994 SNL sketch, “Canteen Boy.”
Baldwin, a recurring player on SNL, was arrested and charged with assault in New York on Friday for allegedly punching a man over a parking spot. (He denied the “assertion” on Twitter.)
The cold open kicked off a politically charged episode that also tackled several headlines of the week, including the cancellation of Megyn Kelly’s morning show Megyn Kelly…
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