Name: ALEC BALDWIN Talks 30 Rock, Fatherhood, Trial
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'ALEC BALDWIN Talks 30 Rock, Fatherhood, Trial' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-03. Transcript available.

ALEC BALDWIN Talks 30 Rock, Fatherhood, Trial

Well, I mean, I know people who have a name who took the money they made, and
it might not have been hundreds of millions of dollars in fees like Leo or
whatever.
Leo?
DiCaprio.
Oh, okay.
But there's people I know who made less money in fees, but they invested that
money.
What are fees?
What do you mean fees?
Acting fees, your fee.
Oh, like SAG.
Yeah, SAG.
Oh, fees like when you get on a movie.
Yeah.
You make a movie and you get paid, you know, you're doing Tom Cruise, you get $50
million.
It's so cool.
You just say the words, right? And you get him $50 million?
No, no, no. He does a lot more than that for $50 million.
Do you have Tom Cruise?
Do I have Tom's number?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have his sister's number.
You have his sister?
But if I call her.
Who's she?
Who's she?
Yeah.
She's Tom's sister.
Wow.
You're with Adam from the show on my TV.
Hello and welcome back to the Adam Friedland Show.
I'm Adam Friedland.
Guys, big episode today.
But before we start, I'm going back on the road.
Emerald City Comedy Club, Seattle, Washington, January 23rd.
Oh, fuck.
I did the dates wrong.
Seattle, Washington, January 22nd, 23rd, 24th.
I'm with Caleb Pitts.
The man that is sick today.
Yeah.
I'm doing five shows.
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It's gonna be...
It's...
Do we?
That's funny that Caleb put it in there.
I'm doing another one of those.
Caleb writes it and I react for the first time.
It's a fun game that the people love.
My guest this week is the legendary American actor Alec Baldwin.
Mr. Baldwin is known for many roles over the years.
But perhaps his most iconic is his turn as Blake.
The chastising associate sent to motivate the poor salesman of...
Oh, was that his name?
Blake?
Sent to motivate the salesman of Glengarry Glen Ross.
His name was Blake?
Did you know that?
He didn't seem like a Blake.
He was a made up character.
They just gave him a last name, but I don't think anyone calls him that.
They didn't put it in the play.
It's...
There's no like dialogue.
It's just like a block of text and then he leaves the...
His name...
He's known for his character, "Put That Coffee Down."
The chastising associate motivated...
Whatever.
It really is a career defining performance.
One of the film's greatest monologues.
The spark of drama that sets everything into motion.
But there's too much cussing.
So here's what I would have said if I was him.
This is good, Caleb.
I hope you're feeling better, my friend.
Hey, you piece of crap.
Put down your coffee and let's get to work.
Enough lollygagging around here.
We really need to work.
And we need to make some sales.
So let's get this thing started and let's have a great week at work.
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks, everyone, for your time.
And if you need anything, I'm always available.
I really appreciate everyone's time.
And I really...
I can really see you guys are trying your hardest.
Okay.
So let's go do this, guys.
Please...
Please enjoy my interview with Alec Baldwin.
Guys, this is a great one.
I'm very proud of it.
Ladies and gentlemen,
American institution, Alec Baldwin.
I can't believe it, folks.
I can't believe it, folks.
I feel...
Thank you.
I feel...
I feel truly...
We had a pre-interview yesterday.
This is where it all ends.
My hot streak.
I'm outclassed and outgunned right now.
Within five seconds, I'm like, it's really him.
That's so bizarre.
You know, when you walk around, and you're just kind of allergic to that.
You know what I mean?
Like, some people will see you on the street and say things to you.
Oh, you knew what you were doing.
You say, calm down.
You know what I mean?
Like...
No, but you got on the phone.
You're like, Friedland.
You're like, yeah.
Friedland.
Tell me something.
Are you as dry in real life as you are on the television screen?
I'm like, it's him.
I feel like Liz Lemon right now.
What an honor.
It's charming.
Thank you so much.
I'm a massive fan.
I think I've researched too much.
I mean, you missed the tinfoil hat, like the pins on a corkboard section.
But we were going quite deep.
And the corruption goes all the way to the top, mind you.
I mean, this whole thing stinks.
Obama, the Illuminati, that pyramid with the eyeball.
Me.
You look carefully at the dollar bill.
You're a useful patsy, I would say.
No, but it has been fun kind of to just revisit your work and just remind
myself, like, kind
of anecdotally the moments of my life that I interacted with it and, you know,
and just
kind of the...
How old are you, if I may ask?
I'm 38 years old.
No, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You look younger.
How familiar are you with this show right now?
I watch your show because the people from my heart said, it's always that thing
where
they're like, well, your podcast would do better if you did other podcasts.
This is a talk show, but yeah.
A talk show.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Real talk.
Your podcast would do better if you did more talk shows.
Yeah.
Thank you.
So, they said to me that you were hot and your show was hot.
Thanks.
And your middle name is hot.
One of the hottest guys said that to me.
And then, so they said to me, come on.
Normally, I don't do a lot of that because I have kids now.
I have a lot of kids.
So, I'm kind of busy with other things, right?
Yeah.
When I leave here, I got to go pick up my kids from school.
Oh, you have like seven of them.
I have eight children.
Eight now?
Well, you're the oldest, yeah.
Sorry.
Well, you lift up a sofa cushion.
There's always a baby under there in my house.
Where do you get the energy?
I don't actually because I'm half dead from exhaustion.
Yeah.
I have my older daughter, Ireland.
She's married, kind of, and has a baby.
And I have a baby and a grandchild that are the same age.
Really?
Yeah.
That's some freaky shit right there.
It's a little, yeah.
It's weed?
Yeah, something.
Are you a weed guy?
No, no, but I've taken some gummies from my, I have that horrible insomnia.
Do you sleep well?
You want to sleep?
I took a half of a five milligram and watched Fantastic Mr. Fox with my
girlfriend.
And I kept saying, this is so well done.
My God, this documentary is amazing.
I've really enjoyed learning about your life.
When you speak about film and the theatrical arts, you kind of seem like you're
in love.
With parts of it, yeah.
From what I understand, like from a very young age.
You grew up in Long Island?
Right.
Irish Catholic family?
Yes.
Your dad let you stay up late and watch movies?
Well, he would, he'd fall asleep.
He would come home.
He always had some other, he was a school teacher.
He always had some evening functions he did and jobs he did to supplement his
income.
And then he'd come home and my mother was like out of it.
So I'd say, who's going to let dad in?
Like he didn't have a key to his own house.
You know what I mean?
So I would wait for him to come and he can go in the kitchen and make a
sandwich and come in and have something to drink.
And he'd watch and he'd look at the New York Times used to have those really pithy
little reviews of movies.
So it would say, you know, ball of fire.
You know, Barbara Stanback tells Gary Cooper where he can go.
And my father would go, wow, ball of fire.
That's a great movie.
I said, let's watch it.
He'd say, no, no, you've got to go to bed.
I'd go, let's watch 10 minutes.
This was my game.
And within 10 minutes he was asleep and I would watch the whole movie until one
o'clock in the morning.
And what were those movies that you were watching?
Like what, what?
Are you a big movie freak?
Yeah.
Five Grays to Cairo with Franchotone.
Okay.
Yeah.
How Queen Was My Valley.
The best.
Ball of Fire.
Sorry, wrong number.
What was Ball of Fire?
Ball of Fire is a comedy with Barbara Stanback, who I love.
The first movie I ever watched on TV all the way through till one in the
morning was Sorry, Wrong Number with Barbara Stanback and Burt Lancaster.
Great thriller.
One of the great thrillers of all time.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
When I've like watched interviews with you, you're like an incredible mimic.
And something I've like connected in my mind was like, I imagine like a kid
watching TV.
Yes.
And then you kind of doing the voices.
Did you feel like you were transcending Long Island?
Well, I would be there watching a movie and someone would come on.
I remember watching movies for those of you here who are a little older.
When you watch movies back then, I mean you had like an Ayurvedic sense of
focus.
Uh-huh.
They were live, right?
Well, yeah.
Well, you'd watch the movie and there was no button to press.
There was no VHS, no VCR, no rewind.
You watched and you got locked in.
You like watched and then heard everything.
Yeah.
So when James Cagney, you would talk about impersonating people, he would say
lines.
You'd walk away an hour, then it'd be, the guy's in the trunk.
The guy says, you know, open up, open up.
I can't breathe.
I need some air.
And Cagney's like, air?
You want air?
I'll give you air.
Boom, boom, boom.
And he shoots the trunk of the car.
Now I'd walk around.
I was like 10 years old.
I'd walk around the whole day going, air?
You want air?
I'll give you air.
And you just, these lived in your mind all the time.
Yeah.
I was an Austin Powers kid.
You were.
Yeah.
It was pretty cool.
Everyone at school thought it was cool.
Yeah.
You like Mike Myers?
Have you followed his whole career?
Yeah.
I mean, that's kind of my age.
Beyond Austin Powers, yeah.
The Love Guru.
The Love Guru.
Yeah.
We love him.
Shrek remakes and Shrek sequels.
More Shrek.
Oh, really?
I thought that was the real Shrek.
There's Mike Myers?
Mike Myers does, yeah.
But those Austin Powers movies.
What was the Scottish guy's name?
The Scottish?
The Fat Bastard.
Thank you.
Yeah, Fat Bastard.
He did all that.
Yeah, Fat Bastard.
I thought that was a good thing.
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You know, they want to see the guy's ass on his face.
Yeah.
The guy naked.
They love that.
Oh, the fat guy.
Yeah, yeah.
The fat guy puts his ass on his face.
What's his name?
I'm sorry, I apologize to you.
I love, you know what I love?
I love Sacha Baron Cohen and Sweeney Todd
when they do the duel, the shaving duel,
where they both shave the guy.
I haven't seen it, but I saw him.
Oh my God.
He did in Les Mis.
Sacha Baron Cohen does Les Mis?
He does Master of the House, doesn't he?
He does.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I've never seen that.
You've never seen Les Mis?
Anniversary issue of the show?
I think it was a movie with, yeah, Anne Hathaway.
She plays like a prostitute, they cut her hair.
He does Master of the House.
Yeah, yeah.
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