-I gotta say, you playing Trump on "Saturday Night Live,"
we've all loved it. [ Laughter ]
-Byu-ugh! -It is fantastic.
And you won an Emmy -- well-deserved Emmy for it.
-Pbht! -But in some article --
I think it was "Vanity Fair," maybe, you said, like,
"It's like agony." -It's not like agony.
It is agony. -Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-But you do that -- like, everybody knows --
I mean, my friends know. Not everybody knows.
That he came to me, Lorne, and said, "Do the Trump thing."
And we thought we're gonna do it for three shows in the Fall.
There was no way he was gonna win.
And then he won, and I remember laying in bed,
going, "Oh, no." [ Laughter ]
'Cause knowing Lorne -- -"I got a gig now," yeah.
-I got with Lorne, he'd be like, "Hello?"
So I mean, I do the whole thing for the whole season, mostly.
I missed just a couple. We do the whole season.
Then we do a few of them this year.
And it's -- You know, it's, uh...
-Yeah. -I don't need to tell you.
It gets exhausting after a while.
-Well, the President himself said...
-Exhibit A. [ Laughter ]
-"Alec Baldwin, whose dying, mediocre career
was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on 'SNL,'
now says playing me was agony.
Alec, it was agony for those who were forced to watch."
-Right. [ Laughter ]
Well, the interesting thing is, nobody --
The interesting thing is,
nobody's actually forced to watch.
[ Laughter ] I found that out.
We don't force anyone to watch. -You're choosing to watch, yeah.
-Yeah, Trump forces people to listen to him.
I guess we call them government employees.
But anyway, the, uh -- [ Laughter ]
We call them the Cabinet. -But you tweeted back,
"Agony though it may be, I'd like to hang in there
at least or the impeachment hearings,
the resignation speech, the farewell helicopter ride
to Mar-A-Lago -- You know, the good stuff."
-The good stuff. [ Cheers and applause ]
-That was good comeback, dude.
-Oh, gosh. -That was a good comeback.
-It is kind of surreal, though.
You know, the President of the United States --
I said to somebody, "Does he have, like, alerts,
or does he sequester himself for just a period of tweeting?"
Like, is he there, as they say,
watching "Fox & Friends" in the morning?
He's got, like, this triple order of bacon.
He likes bacon.
Apparently, he eats like a lot of bacon.
-He loves bacon? -He loves bacon.
Lots of bacon. And he's got his phone,
and he's watching the news, and he's in his --
you know, in his boxers and his bathrobe,
and he's, like, "Tweeting, tweeting."
[ Laughter ] Or does he get, like, alerts?
Like, is he in the middle of a session
with North Korean diplomats,
and they're talking about nuclear weapons,
and he's like, "Hold on a moment, please!
Alec Baldwin, loser. Loser."
-"Alec Baldwin has a new movie out."
-"Really, a horrible movie. Mediocre career."
[ Laughter ]
-Does he, like, tweet throughout the day?
Or is it, like, a big binge thing?
He's like a camel. -Yeah, I don't know.
-It's like an oasis.
He drinks a big long drink in the morning, and he goes on.
-No one can tell what this man is doing.
-No one can tell.
-I can't even really tell what --
speaking of segues -- what you're doing.
Because you do this, you do "Match Game,"
which is super fun. -We have a ball.
-Dude, you do -- -That's so much --
Wen they came to me and said,
"Do you want to do the game show?"
I thought, "Well, I'll do it the one time,"
'cause I give the money to my charity.
Then they came back and said, "Oh, the numbers were good.
Do you want to do it again?"
And I thought, "Why not? We have a ball."
I have more fun with those people than you can imagine.
-It's super fun. Then you do "SNL."
And then you do -- -My talk show.
-You do a movie.
You do, like, Tom Cruise, "Mission Impossible."
-I did the movie. -Then, you do a talk show.
Then, you do -- you're doing a movie here in Brooklyn, right?
-I did the movie "Motherless Brooklyn,"
I just finished, that Edward Norton
directed and he stars in.
It has Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw,
is the young actress' name who is in there,
Willem Dafoe, Cannavale, Cherry Jones.
I mean, all these people -- I was so honored to be asked.
Truly. I mean, people don't realize
like, the people you really admire,
like, the really great, great people
call you and ask you to come work with them,
it's always very touching.
Like "Looming Tower." -Yeah.
-Alex Gibney produced that and directed, I think,
one of the episodes.
And the --
You know, Jeff Daniels plays the lead.
I've always admired Jeff and his career.
Larry Wright -- Lawrence Wright wrote the book, "Looming Tower,"
which I love Larry Wright's writing.
He's one of my favorite writers.
Writes these beautiful essays
and long-form pieces in "The New Yorker."
And Michael Stuhlbarg was in that.
And, you know, a bunch of fantastic actors.
Sarsgaard was in it.
I think we have a -- Do you have a clip?
-Yeah. What is it about, "Looming Tower?"
-[ As Johnny Depp ] I don't really know.
[ Laughter ] My Johnny Depp.
[ As Johnny Depp ] "I don't really know."
-Don't really know, yeah. -"I suppose we'll find out."