After news broke that Ziploc bag full of corn chowder
-Donald Trump... is... -(laughter)
...skipping this year's White House Correspondence Dinner,
'cause he doesn't have to be there. Ugh!
So we decided on our show
to push for our old pal, Anthony Atamanuik,
who's been doing his amazing Trump impression
on our show for,
-like, a year now. -(applause and cheering)
You can see the Trump-Bernie debates on YouTube.
It was, like, one of the biggest things we ever did on the show.
So we said, "Hey, maybe Anthony could do this."
You know, to fill in for the president
by promoting the hashtag #MakeAnthonyTrumpAgain.
We even got the support of Luke Skywalker himself!
-Mark Hamill jumped in to the fray. -(applause and cheering)
This, of course, trended on Twitter.
Seemed like everyone was on board, you know.
Everyone, everyone except for another Trump impersonator,
famous actor and longtime resident
of your mom's mash cache, Alec Baldwin.
(laughter)
Now for some reason, Baldwin,
who's doing an incredible Trump on
and has been doing an amazing job since last fall,
went on Jimmy Kimmel and was kind of dismissive
of Anthony and called him, quote,
"A guy who's on the Internet," which makes Anthony sound
like he's currently stuck in
-(laughter) -He's a real guy.
He's done a lot of stuff.
Anthony's an accomplished performer.
He's been honing his Trump impression since 2015,
a little bit longer than Alec Baldwin, but it's fine.
-(laughter) -I'm not trying to...
I don't want to battle anything. I don't... you know?
Also, not to mention, the two of them were
-on
Now, this whole thing spilled over onto Twitter,
where Alec was pretty dismissive of Anthony.
And then, when a random fan, and our friend James Adomian,
who played Sanders in the Trump thing, jumped in--
admittedly, Adomian was a little hot,
he was a little hot--
but Alec Baldwin responded by threatening to sue them.
-(laughter) -Wow.
The coups de grace of this whole thing is
Alec Baldwin's twitter account blocked
a TV show,
and then (bleep) me! He blocked me for some reason!
-(laughter) -I didn't do anything!
-What did I do? -(applause)
I didn't do anything!
I'm not a...
I didn't mean to be part of this.
I... We were just supporting our buddy, you know.
All right, first of all, I wasn't following him,
-and he blocked me. -(laughter)
But now I'm upset that I'm... now that I can't follow him
if I wanted to. I'm blocked.
Alec, I thought we were friends.
Look, this is your hand on my shoulder.
-(applause and cheering) -Look at this.
I didn't know. I didn't even know
Alec Baldwin wanted to do the correspondence dinner,
and we're certainly not (bleep) on his impression in any way.
(bleep) both do it. One of 'em
get up, and then roast the other Trump, and then swap places.
-Who gives a (bleep)? -(applause and cheering)
You know, we were just rooting for our friend.
Tony...
Alec could just (bleep) do the correspondence dinner.
If he wanted, he could just go, "Hey, I want to do this."
And they go, "(bleep) do it. Let's do it now.
Who gives a (bleep)? You're Alec Baldwin. That's great."
Tony is the underdog here.
He is the Bernie Sanders of Donald Trumps.
-Do you understand? -(laughter)
-This is taking things way too personally. -Wow.
Threatening people with lawsuits and then blocking me,
-aka, you built a wall! -(laughter)
-(cheers and applause) -So, comedians...
I don't want there to be any bad blood here.
What can I say to get Alec Baldwin to unblock me?
-Steve. -Hi, Alec. It's Lorne Michaels.
Could you do me a favor and unblock Mr. Hardwick?
And while you're at it,
maybe make an appearance on the
Okay, bye. See you Saturday.
HARDWICK: All right, great. Yeah, points. That'd be great.
-(applause) -Thank you.
Arielle.
You don't need this. You've got Alec Baldwin money.
-(laughter) -HARDWICK: Yes, yes, points.
-(applause and cheering) -He does.
-Flula Borg. -Listen.
Of all of the Baldwin bothers,
you are absolutely in my top three.
-(laughter) -HARDWICK: See?!
-(applause and cheering) -Alec, let's be friends again.