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What do you think of Alec Baldwin’s impression of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
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Actor and New York native Alec Baldwin is dividing the internet with his impression of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Saturday Night Live.
The 66-year-old Baldwin, a Long Island native from Amityville, appeared in the NBC sketch comedy show’s cold open Saturday, Nov. 16, portraying Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be health and human services secretary.
Watch the entire clip below.
Set in the Oval Office, the scene also featured Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden and James Austin Johnson as Trump. It made fun of Trump’s recent Cabinet nominations, including the controversial selection of Kennedy, a vocal vaccine skeptic.
“Americans need someone to teach them how to be healthy,” Baldwin, as Kennedy, said in the episode. “Someone like me: a 70-year-old man with movie-star looks and a worm in his brain,” he added, referencing Kennedy’s revelation that a parasitic worm ate part of his brain.
“”I care deeply about a woman’s right to choose – to choose to give her child polio,” Baldwin continued. “I just wish people would take my appointment more seriously. Alright, I got to go. I got a dead dolphin in my car.
Kennedy’s character added that he might “saw it in half and dump it in Central Park,” a nod to the real Kennedy’s revelation that he once left a dead bear cub in Central Park in 2014.
As with all things comedy, Baldwin’s work was subjective.
“Barely an impression,” one X user wrote. “Is there a role Baldwin WON’T take from younger, more talented people in comedy?”
"Yikes," wrote another.
“I remember when SNL was funny, *sigh*,” yet another user quipped.
It wasn’t all criticism though: “Alec Baldwin as RFK Jr. is hilarious.”
A native New Yorker, Baldwin was born on Long Island in Amityville, raised in Massapequa, and most recently resided in the Hamptons, in Amagansett.
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