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April 20, 2017

Alec Baldwin’s Approach To His Trump Impersonation Is Brilliant [Video]

Alec Baldwin sat down and explained to Stephen Colbert just how it was he landed up playing Donald Trump on 'SNL', and goes into detail about how he nails it.

What’s better than an Alec Baldwin impression of Trump? Alec Baldwin explaining his impressions of Trump.

During a segment on Tuesday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Baldwin got onto the topic of his infamous impersonations of Donald Trump on SNL.

It’s totally a caricature. You just pick a few things …

You go, ‘Left eyebrow up, right eyebrow down. Shove [your face] up, like you’re trying to suck the chrome off the fender of a car.”

Check out the full interview below, with the Trump stuff starting around the three-minute mark :

After that, Baldwin and Colbert joined forces for “a hilarious instalment of “Too Much Exposition Theatre,” in which the duo crammed an entire play worth of backstory and plot development into four minutes of overstuffed dialogue,” reports Rolling Stone.

Check it:

If you have some time to kill, and the inner workings of SNL fascinate you, THIS article on The Atlantic is darn brilliant.

[source:rollingstone]