By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-17 17:52:40 | Updated at 2024-11-22 10:14:08
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Alec Baldwin is being roundly jeered for appearing on “Saturday Night Live” as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and mocking his raspy voice — which is caused by a neurological condition.
Saturday’s episode kicked off with comedian Dana Carvey portraying “super lame duck” President Biden and “SNL’s” James Austin Johnson as President-Elect Donald Trump, with the pair spoofing on Biden and Trump’s historic fireside Oval Office meeting last week and Trump bringing out some of his cabinet picks, including Baldwin as RFK Jr.
“I’m so honored to be the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Americans need someone to teach them how to be healthy, like me, a 70-year-old man with movie star looks and a worm in his brain,” says Baldwin’s RFK Jr. — with the disgraced actor wobbling his voice, disgracefully trying to mimic Kennedy’s health condition.
Johnson’s Trump replies, “Bobby, I love ya. I can’t wait to see what you do with this country in terms of health and with regard to the measles outbreak.”
Baldwin’s RFK responds, “I care deeply about a woman’s right to choose — to choose to give her child polio,” referencing Kennedy’s notorious anti-vaccination viewpoints.
“Alright, I’ve gotta go, I’ve got a dead dolphin in my car. I think I might saw it in half and dump it in Central Park,” Baldwin’s RFK says.
RFK bizarrely confessed over the summer that he was one of the culprits who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park a decade ago, while his daughter Kick revealed her dad decapitated a dead whale on the beach a couple years earlier and then strapped its head on top of the family’s minivan to take home to study later.
Baldwin’s nasty impression of RFK fell flat with many “SNL” viewers, who panned the actor for mocking Kennedy’s vocal condition, which is caused by spasmodic dysphonia, a condition that causes spasms in the vocal cords.
“Why is @AlecBaldwin making fun of RFKs voice. That’s pretty insensitive and poor taste,” a person wrote.
Another said incredulously: “So now we’re making fun of neurological disorders?”
A third X user added, “Put an arrogant murderer on TV mocking a patriot with a physical disability. If the right did this, the media would be calling for blood. It’s shameful.”
Baldwin’s appearance comes a few months after a judge dismissed the involuntary-manslaughter charges against him in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Baldwin’s western flick “Rust” in 2021. The actor returned to “SNL” as a guest last month.
Some critics expressed outrage that the show would even keep inviting Baldwin to return.
“SNL actually brought back Alec Baldwin… after he killed a woman… to do the worst possible impersonation of RFK Jr. This is what they’re reduced to,” a critic on X wrote,
Another X user chimed in: “They actually brought that dead beat Alec Baldwin back?? SNL just needs to call it quits already.”
A third critic tweeted, “tWho finds that funny? And who said we are giving Alec Baldwin another chance?”
