VIDEO - Alec Baldwin Takes to Saturday Night Live to Spoof Airline Troubles

Alec Baldwin takes to Saturday Night Live

In light of Alec Baldwin’s recent ejection from an American Airline flight for causing a disturbance, he took to SNL over the weekend to declare himself a National Treasure.

Baldwin was removed from the flight for refusing to turn off his phone while playing the game “Words with friends”.

The timing was perfect - and Baldwin, no stranger to Saturday Night Live, took to the Weekend Update desk alongside Seth Meyers to parody his problems.


Kind of cool that within 24 hours of the incident Baldwin could call in a favor from Lorne Michaels and be on SNL for a comedy spot.

Brilliant!

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Could The ESPN ESPY Awards Have Survived Without Justin Bieber?

In the Hollywood world of award shows it’s all about ratings. If your show doesn’t have the viewers you don’t have an award show for long.

So tonight during the two hour ESPY red carpet special leading up to the big awards show, we were shocked at how important of a role Justin Bieber seemed to play.

That’s right – Justin Bieber.

Some people know Justin plays basketball, ice hockey, and soccer – but most know him for his music.

To be fair, Bieber did win the MVP at last year’s NBA All-Star game, but the Wednesday night ESPN ESPY’s were supposed to be all about the athletes and the sport – not Justin Bieber.

Related: Justin Bieber wins NBA All-Star Award – Video

The sad facts:

During the two hour pre-show, Bieber’s name was dropped 46 times by the hosts and interviewers.

Forty six times. Do you believe that?

His name was mentioned more than any other athlete.

Every time they went to a commercial they said, “When we come back we’ll have Justin Bieber on the red carpet….”

Forty six times.

In fact, when the pop star did appear the host told him the crowd had cheered more for him than ANY of the athletes walking the red carpet.

Really?

Forty six times.

How awkward was it to watch grown men drop his name in what seemed like an effort to hype the show.

Forty six times.

At one point the host read a viewer’s email asking who was the most anticipated red carpet walker and he joked “Maybe Justin Bieber”.

Forty six times.

Is that what it takes to get the viewers to tune in? Do adult male sports fanatics really care?

No.

The bottom line is if Bieber would not have walked the red carpet during the preshow their probably wouldn’t have been any show.

But you can sell a lot of advertising during a two hour warm up.

Forty six times.

Sad.

I hope Seth Meyers doesn’t have 50 Bieber jokes ready to go – but I bet he has a few.

And they better not point the camera on him during the actual show every 5 seconds.

And I hope the award winners don’t drop his name just to get the audience to scream – they may be disappointed.

We were.

Forty six times.

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Obama and Seth Meyers Go After Trump at White House Correspondence Dinner – Video

Last night was the annual White House Correspondence Dinner, or as insiders call it – “The Nerd Prom”.

Guests and celebrities came from all over to eat dinner, drink, and hear Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers roast the president.

Obama and Meyers did not waste any time jumping in to the “Long Form Birth Certificate” issue. The funny thing? Donald Trump was in the audience and looked none too happy at some of the jokes.

Just watch as the camera pans to Trump during some of the jokes and you will see a very uncomfortable man.

Seth Meyers said when he first heard Trump was running for president he thought he would run as a republican – but instead he “ran as a joke.”

Meyers then joked, “Donald Trump recently said he has a great relationship with the blacks. But unless the blacks are a white family, he was mistaken.”

There were lots of jabs at Fox News, NPR, Trump, and others.

The guest list was impressive with Angus T. Jones (who just learned his show Two and a Half Men is returning with him as the star), Kate Hudson, Sean Penn, Bristol Palin, Paul Rudd, and Glee’s Jane Lynch.

All in all it was good clean fun and showed us once again that Donald Trump really is a big douchebag.

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