Alec Baldwin has high hopes for his Donald Trump impersonation, which he has performed on “Saturday Night Live” ever since the 2016 presidential election.
The 59-year-old actor joined Howard Stern for an interview on Monday to promote his book, “You Can’t Spell America Without Me,” when he revealed that he’s planning to turn his Trump impression into a one-man show on Broadway.
Baldwin’s book, which he co-wrote with Kurt Anderson, presents a parody of Trump’s first year in office, according to Deadline Hollywood. With the help of “SNL” producer Lorne Michaels, Baldwin hopes to eventually turn the book into a Broadway play, starring him as Trump.
“We may take the book and make it into a one-man show on Broadway,” Baldwin said, noting that the rights to perform thee impersonation belong to Michaels.
“What Lorne did do is give me permission to write this book,” Baldwin said. “My rendering of [Trump] is his intellectual property.”
“We’re all sick of the whole Trump as source of comedy thing, and I am too, but Kurt goes to another level,” the actor added.
Michaels is already producing a musical adaptation of Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” that is expected to hit Broadway in the spring. Seeing as he and Baldwin have a close working relationship it would be surprising to see the “SNL” creator turn the opportunity down. After all, Baldwin’s impression already won him an Emmy.