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Doreen

(11,686 posts)
2. They just need to have him there film it and make it the next SNL.
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 07:30 PM
Feb 2017

Viewing would go through the roof I bet.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
5. I think it could be excellent
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 07:40 PM
Feb 2017

if Baldwin were able to ad-lib as tRump for the entire dinner. That's the key. It can't be scripted. He just has to become tRump for the evening.

OnDoutside

(19,906 posts)
6. What's the American for a Tub of Lard ? There's a famous story of
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 07:56 PM
Feb 2017

the BBC news quiz programme called Have I Got News For You, when Roy Hattersley failed to appear for the 4 June 1993 episode — it was the third time he had cancelled at the last minute — he was replaced with a tub of lard (credited as "The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard MP&quot , as it was "liable to give much the same performance and imbued with many of the same qualities".

The Tub of Lard was on Merton's team, which went on to win, supposedly despite attempts by Deayton to tip the balance in Hislop's favour, including replacing all of Merton's 'Missing Words' with extracts from foreign language newspapers, and a tabloid headline completely blanked out.




Something similar, like a tub of shit ?

George II

(67,782 posts)
11. That suggestion has been all over the internets today since trump's refusal to appear....
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 10:17 PM
Feb 2017

...I'm sure the correspondents have already begun planning how to roast trump. Maybe they could enlist the SNL writers to help.

This is going to be SO great no matter who speaks.

I hope Michelle and Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton show up, too.

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