--- title: Read Alec Baldwin Nevertheless Book Online description: In a new 'Vanity Fair' story, Baldwin shares insight into his comedy crushes, his Trump impression, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4715006/alec-baldwin-on-tina-fey-relationship/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-28T15:07:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:34.219Z og:title: Alec Baldwin on Ultimate Work Wife Tina Fey: 'I Fell in Love' og:description: The legendary actor had a thing for his ultimate work wife og:url: https://time.com/4715006/alec-baldwin-on-tina-fey-relationship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53a778f1686c19dc/6988c0217cdbac2b34d57a03/alec-baldwin-tina-fey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 30 Rock - Season 7 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alec Baldwin on Ultimate Work Wife Tina Fey: 'I Fell in Love' twitter:description: The legendary actor had a thing for his ultimate work wife twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53a778f1686c19dc/6988c0217cdbac2b34d57a03/alec-baldwin-tina-fey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alec Baldwin on the Meeting His Comedy Soul Mate Tina Fey: 'I Fell in Love' > Sponsored content. 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Alec Baldwin took his Donald Trump impression outside Saturday Night Live‘s Studio 8H at a rally protesting the president-elect’s imminent inauguration._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 28, 2017 3:07 PM UTC  "Unwindulax" Episode 704 -- Pictured: (l-r) Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy. "Unwindulax" Episode 704 -- Pictured: (l-r) Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy. NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 28, 2017 3:07 PM UTC Alec Baldwin’s working relationship with [_30 Rock_](http://time.com/5102/30-rock-sochi/) producer, writer, actor, and [comedy queen Tina Fey](http://motto.time.com/4594334/tina-fey-post-election-misogyny/) is one of the great platonic love stories of TV comedy. But according to a new [cover story in ](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/alec-baldwin-cover-story)_Vanity Fair,_ Baldwin didn’t always feel just friendly towards Fey. In fact, when he first met her at an _SNL_ rehearsal, it was more like love at first sight. “When I first met Tina Fey—beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say—I had the same reaction that I’m sure many men and women have: I fell in love,” he [explains in the piece](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/alec-baldwin-cover-story), which is excerpted from his book, _Nevertheless: A Memoir_. But when he asked an _SNL_ coordinator if Fey was “single,” but he was woefully disappointed. “She pointed to a man sitting along the wall. Or maybe he was standing? This was Jeff Richmond, Tina’s husband. Jeff is diminutive. Tina describes him as ‘travel-size.’ When I saw him, I thought, What’s she doing with him?” Baldwin later came to respect Richmond and understand their relationship, although it took him a few years. And it turns out Fey isn’t the only leading lady in comedy Baldwin’s had a big crush on. The other: _Will and Grace_‘s [Megan Mullally](http://time.com/4638016/will-grace-revival/). “I have always been madly in love with [Megan Mullally](http://time.com/3660284/megan-mullally-digital-detox/),” he dishes. “Megan is such an original in terms of her timing, her warmth, and her mixture of insanity and sexiness… But with her high-pitched voice and loopy delivery, I’ve always found Megan irresistible.” Baldwin is also cautious about calling himself a comedian. “If people think I can say a line in a way that gets a laugh, I’ll take it. But I’m not funny. The _SNL_ writers are funny. Tina Fey is funny. Conan O’Brien is funny. You’re only funny if you can write the material. What I do is acting,” he writes. ## Transcript I just want to say, [ LAUGH ] I've been standing out here in the freezing cold for a long time. I have to go to the bathroom. I have to pee, but I'm holding it in. I'm holding it, I'm not gonna pee. I'm going to a function at the Russian Consulate tonight. I'm going to hold it until I get there. And, then when I get to the Russian Consulate, I'm going to have a really, really long pee. 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