{"id":1365,"date":"2011-12-13T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2011-12-13T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T16:55:13","slug":"alec-baldwins-snl-stint-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/12\/alec-baldwins-snl-stint-falls-short.html","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin’s SNL Stint Falls Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pathetic.<\/p>\n

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Alec Baldwin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That’s the best way to describe Alec Baldwin’s appearance on ‘SNL’ the other night.<\/p>\n

It took me this long to opine because I only saw the ‘skit’ Monday morning on Today.<\/p>\n

I haven’t stayed up to watch SNL for years, nor would I waste DVR space for it.<\/p>\n

Meaning I have missed several of Alec Baldwin’s record-number of appearances, to which he added to Saturday.<\/p>\n

He wasted his time, and ours, with a ridiculous appearance in which he “played” the airline pilot and said some gobbly-gook with a strange southern accent.<\/p>\n

It was weird and offensive, much like Alec Baldwin has become in recent years.<\/p>\n

There was no apology to the pilot, flight attendants or passengers of whom he wasted all their time recently by not shutting off his phone and putting it away.<\/p>\n

The rules don’t apply to Alec Baldwin, however, or at least he doesn’t think they do.<\/p>\n

Then, to rub salt in the wound, he thinks a cutesy-shmootsy appearance on SNL will make the matter go away.<\/p>\n

You’re not funny any more Alec Baldwin. And more importantly, you’re not a very considerate person, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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