After internet hosting the present upwards of a thousand occasions and doing his arguably satisfactory Donald Trump impression for therefore lengthy that you’d’ve thought the alternate persona would possibly’ve fully contaminated him just like the Venom symbiote, it shouldn’t be a bizarre shock when Alec Baldwin exhibits up on Saturday Night Live… and but he’s been within the information for some stuff because the days when he was always visiting 30 Rock. Stuff that you simply would possibly assume would make it somewhat prickly to have him pop up on a comedy present, if solely as a result of everybody who sees him is both going to instantly consider what occurred on the set of Rust or they’re going to marvel what he’s been as much as and do some Googling.
And but SNL has been recognized to run full-steam forward with questionable concepts (like when the actual Trump hosted or after they did that “Hallelujah” track), so perhaps it’s really not a shock that Baldwin made a considerably inexplicable look final evening because the button on an in any other case simple sketch starring host Timothée Chalamet as himself. In the sketch, Chalamet is recording a sleep story for the Calm app that turns into more and more aggressive and non-calming (it’s about somebody stepping in canine poop and eager to assault the canine accountable), with the intelligent twist of the Calm workers being actually hostile and imply to Chalamet for questioning them.
A strong sketch! No complaints! And then Alec Baldwin exhibits as much as report his personal sleep story, with the joke apparently being that he’s simply actually on board for the bizarre, aggressive vibe of the Calm workers? It’s one thing anybody might’ve executed, nevertheless it’s additionally the form of factor Baldwin has been often up for within the final couple of years on SNL, so the truth that it’s only a very, very minor cameo looks like he’s making an attempt to softly dip his toe again into the public eye (as gross as that metaphor is) after the current different tales. He was clearly going to do it sooner or later, and it makes excellent sense that SNL is the place he selected.
