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Oct. 21 (UPI) — Alec Baldwin told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that Lorne Michaels convinced him to return as President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.

Appearing Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Ronan Farrow detailed how aides to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raised concerns to him regarding his reporting on disgraced Hollywood producer and Democrat Party bundler Harvey Weinstein in his new book “Catch and Kill.”

Unlike Fox News, which brought in an outside law firm to investigate numerous harassment allegations, NBC has only ever investigated itself and issued denials.  

NBC News is on the defense ahead of the release on Tuesday of Rowan Farrow’s book that includes claims of company-wide sex abuse.

Last week’s LGBTQ issues town hall hosted by CNN may have been even too much for the cast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” aired a joke about presidential assassinations on Saturday when “Weekend Update” anchor Michael Che noted that the impeachment process was too slow for John Wilkes Booth.

NBC’s 45-year-old sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” lost 30 percent of its 18-49 2018 opener viewership, as Alec Baldwin’s Trump was front and center in the show’s 45th season premiere.

Wednesday, NBC News’ Chuck Todd laid out the “unofficial deadline” for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democrats’ impeachment of President Donald Trump. Todd said Super Bowl Sunday, which is the first Sunday of February, is “essentially their unofficial deadline”

Comedian Shane Gillis said President Trump getting shot “would be funny to see” in his first stand-up comedy show since he was fired from “Saturday Night Live,” following the surfacing of old jokes where he used slurs against Asians and gays.

“Saturday Night Live” has spent decades airing sketches mocking Asian stereotypes, with Caucasian cast members performing in yellow face and cracking jokes like “probrem” and “what if she no like chicken?”

John Belushi as a Japanese samurai. Julia Sweeney as the gender-ambiguous Pat. “Jane, you ignorant slut.” These memorable Saturday Night Live sketches challenged the boundaries of taste and political correctness to become TV classics. But would they survive today’s cancel culture in which woke identity politics has become the ultimate arbiter of comedy?

Only days after Saturday Night Live announced that Shane Gillis had been named as one of its three new cast members, the comedian is apologizing for past comedy acts where he used Asian slurs and jokes about gays and getting into “Muslim Heaven.” 

Left-wing Hollywood star Alec Baldwin claims he despised playing President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” so much that he once wished a “meteor” would strick him dead. 

President Donald Trump continued his feud with actress Debra Messing after she endorsed the idea of a “blacklist” of people donating to his reelection campaign and suggesting that black people voting for the president were “mentally ill.”

President Trump fired back at “Will & Grace” star Debra Messing after she called for the identities of those attending his fundraiser next month to be made public.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson commented on the 2020 Democratic field of candidates during a segment showing candidates cautioning voters against playing it “safe.” Robinson said although Democrats are “comfortable” with frontrunner and Joe

Andrea Mitchell falsely claimed on Friday that President Donald Trump had not condemned neo-Nazis, as she covered the Joe Biden-Breitbart News confrontation.

CNN’s Democrat primary debates Tuesday and Wednesday night attracted just 8.7 million and 10.7 million viewers respectively – numbers that pale in comparison to June’s Democrat primary debates hosted by NBC.

Following Wednesday’s testimony by former FBI special counsel Robert Mueller, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) conceded it would be “difficult” to impeach President Donald Trump. McCaskill, now an analyst for NBC, said on “Today” that she believes the only way

Tuesday on NBC’s “Late Night,” former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, argued that given many Americans view immigration as a problem in some respects, it was the “best possible problem” for the country.

Unearthed footage shows President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein socializing at a party at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1992. 

Megan Rapinoe has a message for U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) fans who are also Trump supporters, and that message is equality.

The establishment media took shots at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) over a U.S. census record supposedly detailing his ancestry’s entanglement with slavery, but the Kentucky senator responded by mentioning a shared background with former President Barack Obama.

A new Jeffrey Epstein rape accuser came forward Wednesday, saying she was “forcefully raped” when she was 15 years old. Jennifer Araoz, now 32, told NBC’s “Today” that the hedge fund manager befriended her and would have her over at his townhouse

Mainstream media analysis of the first night of the first Democratic Party presidential primary debate agreed across-the-board that the party has shifted so far to the left that it is unrecognizable from the party it was in the 1990s.

Fact check: Julian Castro said in the Democrat debates that he would end the “zero tolerance” policy by executive order. But President Trump did so, at least formally, last year.

NBC News was forced to cut to a commercial break during the first 2020 Democrat presidential debate after due to technical difficulties. 

Appearing Thursday on NBC’s 3rd Hour of the TODAY show, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shut down the notion that race relations are “worse” under President Donald Trump. 

NBC has announced the moderators for the first two Democrat presidential primary debates, which are set to take place in Miami, Florida, on June 26–27.

Working with a Hispanic community organizing group, La Casa de Amistad, Buttigieg created a special “community resident card” for illegal immigrants and then signed an executive order requiring the town to accept them for local goods and services.

Vice President Joe Biden continues to support the Hyde Amendment but would be open to repealing it if Roe vs. Wade is threatened the campaign said Wednesday.

NBCUniversal said on Thursday that newly passed abortion laws would “strongly impact” its film and TV production location decisions.

Thursday on NBC’s “Today,” network host Chuck Todd weighed in on the state of the Democratic Party after FBI special counsel Robert Mueller gave a statement that reiterated his findings in the Russia probe. With impeachment talks continuing among some

NBC political director and Meet the Press host Chuck Todd said he believes political candidates must “prove that they’re worthy of coverage” from cable news outlets.

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” began the end of its 2018-2019 season with yet another performance of Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump. Baldwin’s Donald Trump, Cecily Strong’s Melania Trump, Beck Bennett’s Mike Pence and Aidy Bryant’s Sarah Sanders performed a rendition of

Saturday’s cold open on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” was an effort to mock Senate Republicans for not being openly hostile toward President Donald Trump. The sketch featured Cecily Strong as Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Beck Bennett as Senate Majority Leader