STAGE TUBE: Alec Baldwin Joins Saturday Night Live as Donald Trump

As if one Donald Trump wasn't scary enough, Saturday Night Live returned last night for a new season and with it came the return of the show's election commentary, including Alec Baldwin as the new Donald Trump, following the departure of former cast member Taran Killam. Featuring Trump complaining about his microphone being "bad," frequently interrupting Secretary Clinton, and his continued lies about issues such as his support of the Iraq war, the cold open sketch takes on a recap of the first Presidential Debate, with Emmy-winner Kate McKinnon resuming her role as Hillary Clinton, and Michael Che taking on the role of the debate moderator, Lester Holt.

Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "In defiance of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

The program has won 45 Emmy Awards and now holds the title for the most nominated television show in Emmy history with 187 nominations. "SNL" has been honored twice, in 1990 and 2009, with the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and cited as "truly a national institution." "Saturday Night Live" was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the National Association of Broadcasters, and the show continues to garner the highest ratings of any late-night television program, entertaining millions each week.

"Saturday Night Live," which premiered October 11, 1975, is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center.

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