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Shane Gillis Says He Turned Down Playing Donald Trump On ‘SNL’ Season 50
Saturday Night Live apparently nearly had a new Donald Trump impersonator for its 50th season. Shane Gillis claimed over the weekend that he was asked to play the former President for the entirety of season 50 but turned it down. At Skankfest, a comedy festival in Las Vegas, it emerged that Gillis, who did spoof […]
“Because he was offered to play Trump on the entire season of SNL and he turned it down to f*cking be here, folks,” Gomez added. The idea of a new Trump impersonator gained steam after Lorne Michaels gave an interview, where he said that the show would have to “reinvent it again” following the Presidential debate. In the end, James Austin Johnson, who has recently portrayed Trump on the show, , Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz, Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden and Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff.
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