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so I start doing the Trump thing uh and uh of course Lawrence says so it's going
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to be three shows oh three that's Lauren yeah you do a great book he said there's three shows
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that it's out because he's gonna lose so I come in I do the three shows I'm
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laying in bed uh we fall asleep we don't have a TV in our bedroom but I got my computer we
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fall asleep and I wake up at three in the morning I'm checking since Trump went one two one oh boy and I wake my
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wife up and I go Trump won Marvel literally groans and rolls over goes back to sleep and I sit there and go now
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I gotta do this [ __ ] thing for the next four [ __ ] years but you Dana I'm
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not just saying this to be polite I mean you were a huge inspiration for me because I would watch I'd show people ah
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Bush I'd show Bush and I'd say now watch this and you'd be like you know you do all that phonetics yeah
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you did those insane phonetics with him and I say that's it I go you make your
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own character yes it doesn't have to be some precise no I mean I do I do the
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worst Trump impersonation of anybody in America but the idea was I thought to myself what does he deserve he doesn't
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deserve I'm a Brendan Gleason doing the Comey movie we're doing the combi movie
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with Jeff Daniels it's like but you know I I could do pencil necks not even literal pencil necks but I could do Bush
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senior and I could do Perot but for Trump it'd be hard but you did have this
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you brought this hulking trumpism to it you know that was just innate uh so what
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did he deserve he's a two-dimensional guy and I said and everybody doesn't
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understand that you know you know infinitely better than I do that you're firing in the cannon on a live show oh
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yeah I'm in front of a live audience and TV cameras yes and I just thought to
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myself in acting school they'd say watch the performance with the sound off yeah we watch The Sound of and you'd see
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the person you were imitating or emulating in whatever way with the sound of trouble is always like stick your
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mouth out like you're gonna suck the windshield out of the car hold your hands up like you're waiting for someone
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to hand you a towel I mean like they're like this yeah and uh but a lot of what
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I said I showed people your bush I said look at this I said he's doing his own
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thing he's come up with his own thing you know well because we didn't know we
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didn't know what there was after Reagan bumbling Reagan we it was like a technocrat it was like a flat voice
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there was nothing there and then kept teasing out little rhythms going in that area that thing and then taking it to
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from not gonna do it to not God do it but the audience took it with me but I wanted to ask you the the terror until
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you get used to it of the whole studio is the only time it's quiet is right before the cold opening everybody's
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freezes in the other sketches there's movement and slats moving around of course yeah
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in seconds and then you have all these jokes to land so I remember at one point to myself I said think of the script as
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suggestions because I would get I I and when the script was too long I'd say I feel like
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I'm doing homework now Al it's too many jokes I would rather do less and be
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playful but how did you deal with all that pressure because it's all quiet and
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here comes Alec doing Trump you know it's it's scary that dude I mean I'm
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standing there on the stage and we're gonna do the we're gonna do the dress
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and I'm not I'm not saying this to be amusing or whatever we're standing there
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to do the dress and I go I have no [ __ ] idea when I'm with him all I know is I gotta stick my mouth out
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like this yeah put my hands up and say and I'm trying to just do the whole and
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he's a guy who back then in the early days we had this gag was like he was a
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guy who was always groping for a stronger word than he never found so he'd say I spent I went to this event
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with this crowd it was a fantastic crowd this crowd was truly truly fantastic you know we're looking just
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Loops back he's not he's not a lot of verbal muscularity he has he never runs
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into a ditch because he has these little phrases many people are saying many people you're gonna see it we're going
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to do it because we know how to do it we know where we're going and a lot of
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people don't want us to do it but we're gonna do it anyway