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