Posted on 12/12/2017 8:56:30 AM PST by EdnaMode
If Tina Fey can do it, why not her 30 Rock co-star Alec Baldwin? And if their SNL commander-in-chief can honcho her Broadway show, why not his as well?
Those were the questions raised Monday when Baldwin told Howard Stern he has Broadway in his sights for a solo show based on his Emmy-winning impersonation of Donald J, Trump, with Lorne Michaels producing. Michaels is also producing Fey’s musical adaptation of Mean Girls, slated to arrive on Broadway in the spring.
Baldwin was interviewed on Stern’s Sirius XM program to promote You Can’t Spell America Without Me, his new book, co-written with Kurt Andersen. The parody purports to tell the “really tremendous inside story” of the president’s first year in office.
“We may take the book and make it into a one-man show on Broadway,” Baldwin said, adding that the book was written with the blessing of Michaels, who controls the rights to the impersonation. “What Lorne did do is give me permission to write this book,” Baldwin said. “My rendering of (Trump) is his intellectual property.”
Baldwin added that “We’re all sick of the whole Trump as source of comedy thing, and I am too, but Kurt goes to another level.”
Baldwin has a lucrative model for the possible show: In 2009, Will Ferrell brought his SNL impression of George W. Bush to the Cort Theatre in You’re Welcome, America. A Final Night with George W. Bush. The three-month stand was a smash hit.
Baldwin has had a celebrated stage career that includes five Broadway shows, including A Streetcar Named Desire, in which he played Stanley Kowalski opposite Jessica Lange’s Blanche Du Bois and Amy Madigan’s Stella.
They call them “skits” for a reason, Alec. Skits that are turned into plays/movies are called “extended skits”, which is not a compliment.
How entertaining.
Is he still beating his ex-wife?
The Left simply cannot win the debate in the forum of ideas because they have no ideas that can stand the test of truth and rational debate. They lose every time and they know it. They have long since stopped trying.
So instead the Left lies, mocks, and tries to intimidate. That is what tyrants do. Baldwin is simply being a good Leftist tyrant. That’s all.
Next.
Im guessing it doesn’t take much for Alec to channel his inner a hole. then say he is impersonating Trump.
I was wondering how his daughter is doing?
Sweet! More wasted Lib money circling the toilet!
Didn’t Michael Moore just try that with disasterous results?
Alec Baldwin is imitating Alec Baldwin, and that’s it. Kinda’ like the people who imitated Richard Nixon who became imitators of their own creation and had nothing to do with the person they were so-called imitating.
Trump in no way looks or acts like this ass’s so-called imitation.
Apart from ‘Trump Bashing’ or ‘Conservative Bashing’ these people wouldn’t have ‘careers’
By the way-You can accomplish ‘Conservative Bashing’ or ‘Trump bashing’ in your sleep... so what they’re doing is possible even for people with a minus zero IQ
Where’s the ‘talent’ thingy?
At least Tina Few is pleasant to look at (sexist remark noted)
Few=Fey
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Imagine the outrage if someone had tried that during the Obama years, a show mocking Obama.
Who would spend $100+ per ticket to see Baldwin.
Only the very low IQ club members.
Yeah, are the dims giving him a pass on his beating Kim Bassinger?
Oh that’s right, it wasn’t sexual. It’s ok then.
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