Darrell was the best, hands down:
Former SNL great Darrell Hammond has revealed his heartbreak at losing his gig impersonating Donald Trump on SNL to Alec Baldwin, and says it almost caused him to relapse into alcoholism.
The 61-year-old Florida native returned to the show in 2015 to portray the then-presidential candidate after being a regular on SNL from 1995 to 2009.
Hammond, who is known as one of the best impersonators ever, was blindsided when he was ousted prior to the start of Season 42…
Now, over a year later, Hammond said he still has not spoken to Michaels about being fired or why the decision was made…
‘I needed another force, on an acting level, to have the power that Trump was embodying then,’ Michaels told the Post. ‘The Darrell Trump… it wasn’t the Trump that had gotten darker. It was the Trump from The Apprentice.’
Michaels said that he had planned to speak with Hammond after the decision, but Hammond had left town. He’s not sure though that an explanation would have even helped.
In the very first debate with Hillary, the camera cut to Trump at his podium for just a moment. Donald imitated Darrell Hammond’s imitation of Donald Trump, for just about three seconds. He gave the puckered lips and squinted out of the corner of his eye as he tilted his head just a little, as he looked at Hillary. It was a brilliant move.
Darrell Hammond was funny. Whenever you saw him pucker up and squint, you reflexively smiled with anticipation because your brain knew that what you were about to see would be off the wall, brilliant, and above all funny.
Trump used that programming by imitating Hammond’s imitation at his debate. I saw it, and even before I knew what was going on I smiled broadly, almost to the point of laughing. Nicole Wallace proceeded to comment right after it that Trump’s people needed to get ahold of him and school him to look more professional at all times, because she said he just looked like a Darrell Hammond impersonation of Donald Trump in that last shot. She was laughing as she said it. Trump had elicited the emotions and the mood he wanted. He was Darrell – he could do anything, and it would be funny.
If Lorne Michaels admits he purposely hired Alec Baldwin to do a hack job on the perceptions of Donald Trump, and make him look “Darker” then it is time to take the governmental Buzzsaw to NBC and Lorne. From taxes, to monopolies in media, to unfair competition for books and other media that NBC selectively promotes to control the marketplace, it should all be on the table. Why aren’t independent books discussed on their network shows as often as books by their own affiliates? Is there evidence they preferentially promoted their own works to monopolize the market and keep independent publishers out?
Also notice that Lorne used the word Dark. That was the word which popped up all at once that Scott Adams pointed out was probably the work of Robert Cialdini, or one of his students. Lorne doesn’t look bright enough to come up with that himself. I would assume it was Robert Cialdini, who decided Darrell had to go, and either called Lorne himself, or passed word around to him through Hillary’s campaign or the DNC. That is how completely the other side has sought control in the political battles we faced. Is it any wonder the Republicans have been losing for all of these years, despite being right on the issues and more aligned with the ideals of the nation?
If I were Trump, I would sue Lorne in private civil court, to get discovery for all his emails to see if he was colluding with either a paid agent of Hillary’s campaign like Cialdini, or with Hillary’s campaign itself. Where did he get the word “Dark” from? Is it in his emails? Did he get a phone call from Cialdini? Did that communication happen right before Darrel was given the axe? This is where a Trump supporter in the machine would access the NSA databases, and then parallel construct a lawsuit discovery process to reveal an NBC worker functioned as an extension of the Hillary campaign without giving the Trump campaign equal time. At the least Lorne would be out at Saturday Night Live, and Alec too. And other rabbits would see him suffer, and go into hiding themselves.
It would also be a shame if some billionaire hired a private sector intelligence operation to put coverage on Cialdini, and begin digging around for skeletons in his closet, as well as applying pressure to him. It would be even better if Trump got his people inside the intelligence infrastructure of the nation and began putting that infrastructure to good use in some fashion in that regard. It would be interesting to know just how much foreign money flowed through Clinton’s foundation and campaign, and into Cialdini’s pockets. For that matter, Cialdini might be working for foreign governments, or selling his skills somewhere else where there would be laws that forbid such interfering political activities.
It would be shame if he got Manaforted all of a sudden. As a rabbit, I am pretty sure he would cave quite quickly.
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