C4: SNL / Ep1: To Trump or Not To Trump

Origins with James Andrew Miller

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Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Since its beginning, Saturday Night Live has tweaked and taunted presidents from both parties and of all shapes and sizes. It’s fair to say, however, that Donald Trump is a more challenging figure for the show than any of the presidents who preceded him. Here, SNL creator Lorne Michaels, actor Alec Baldwin, Update coanchors Michael Che and Colin Jost, and veteran SNL player Kenan Thompson all reflect on the show’s first two years of life with Trump — and what the third year just ahead may bring.... To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh man, well from the time I got the call, I was doing stand up, it was the life source of everything I do.
0:07.0	And then I got the call from Lauren, you know, soon as I heard his voice, I put my pants on.
0:12.0	Because I felt like he would hear that I didn't have
0:14.2	pants on and I just I didn't need to kick off the relationship like that you know what I mean like
0:19.2	it's a business call I don't need to be out here or pants let's take in his job.
0:23.1	So, but I came to the job.
0:24.7	I was already on another show and Lauren was not worried about it.
0:27.0	Like his confidence is just through the roof.
0:29.0	He was just like, oh, you're on this little show, but we'll deal with that.
0:32.4	I'm like, what, we can just do that?
0:34.8	The craziest thing was when Trump was,
0:37.3	guess that was season 42, right before the election that summer,
0:41.9	the race was like getting hot where it looked like he not reasonably could win but you know like it was possible it was a realistic possibility for once it felt like I remember I was staying at a Trump hotel in Chicago
0:55.0	which was my favorite hotel in the country. It was like my favorite place. I love
1:01.0	this hotel for some reason this hotel I, I think it has like sentimental value because I had like this really big gig and they flew me out and they put me up there like years ago and it was like the nicest place I ever stayed so like for some
1:14.7	reason that hotel was like a special place to me and I was staying and I had
1:18.6	all this Trump member had like a little Trump card and all these Trump chocolates
1:22.4	and Trump pens and all this stuff and I was
1:24.7	sending it to the anchors I was like dude I'm gonna come out and be a Trump supporter because
1:29.4	it'll be so funny that it's clearly no I'm not a Trump supporter but it'd be funny to be the guy that is like we should just like have fun with it and then the closer it got to the show it seems a little bit too real that he was going to win and we're like we can't do that
1:46.0	because then people are going to really believe that we're Trump supporters.
1:48.6	But it was funny when it was silly when it was like there's no way but when it becomes a possibility
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