--- description: Saturday Night Live featured a multitasking Alec Baldwin as both Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and President Donald Trump title: Alec Baldwin Multitasked as President Trump and Bill O’Reilly in His SNL return image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Alec Baldwin Multitasked as President Trump and Bill O’Reilly in His _SNL_ Return by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 9, 2017 1:58 PM CUT by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 9, 2017 1:58 PM CUT _Saturday Night Live_‘s first new episode after a weeks-long hiatus featured a multitasking Alec Baldwin, who did double duty as both embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and President Donald Trump. Baldwin kicked off the show playing O’Reilly with a promise to finally address “the scandal everyone’s been talking about all week, a scandal no one thought I’d have the guts to address head-on, about the shocking allegations of abuse of power — that have been leveled against the Obama administration.” In the last week, [_The O’Reilly Factor_ lost several advertisers](http://fortune.com/2017/04/08/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment/ "undefined") after a [New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news.html?%5Fr=1 "undefined") report revealed that five women have received about $13 million to settle accusations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by O’Reilly. Baldwin, still playing the Fox News host, then tried to interview a reporter. After being told she no longer works at Fox, Baldwin asked, “Did she get the check?” Later in a split-screen interview, Baldwin appeared as both Trump and O’Reilly. Baldwin’s O’Reilly noted that Trump,who defended O’Reilly over the [sexual harassment claims](http://time.com/4722035/fox-news-bill-oreilly-lawsuits/ "undefined") last week, was not familiar with the details of the accusations against him. “I’m more familiar with this case than I am with, say, health care,” he replied. “But I didn’t really look into it much, no.” Watch the sketch above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4732238/alec-baldwin-bill-oreilly-trump-snl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4732238/alec-baldwin-bill-oreilly-trump-snl/"},"headline":"Alec Baldwin Multitasked as President Trump and Bill O’Reilly in His SNL Return","datePublished":"2017-04-09T13:58:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:18:20.468Z","description":"Alec Baldwin pulled double duty","url":"https://time.com/4732238/alec-baldwin-bill-oreilly-trump-snl/","keywords":["Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4732238/alec-baldwin-bill-oreilly-trump-snl/","name":"Alec Baldwin Multitasked as President Trump and Bill O’Reilly in His SNL Return"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See How SNL's Third Presidential Debate Parody Compares to the Real Thing","description":"Saturday Night Live's parody of the third and final presidential debate once again let Alec Baldwin play a caricature of a juvenile, faltering Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon play a gratingly boastful Hillary Clinton on cruise control.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fAfztZ65/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-10-24T19:30:16.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fAfztZ65.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4732238/alec-baldwin-bill-oreilly-trump-snl/","duration":"PT3M22S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4732238/alec-baldwin-bill-oreilly-trump-snl/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```