Cannes: Another Jewelry Heist? $2.6M Necklace Missing After … 
‘Hangover III’ With Weak $11M Wed/Thurs Kicks … 
Specialty B.O. Preview: ‘Before Midnight’, … 
2012-2013 Season Network Rankings: CBS Sweeps In Final … 
Full 2012-2013 TV Season Series Rankings 
TOLDJA! Paramount Pocketing $190M From Disney For Marvel … 
‘Good Morning America’ Hits 19-Year Viewership … 
MGM Buys ‘Modern Family’ Producer Ben … 
‘Fashion Police’ Writers Chant On Picket Lines: … 
Universal Makes Seven-Figure Deal For ‘The School For … 
Steven Soderbergh Will Interrupt Retirement To Direct And … 
Cannes: EOne Announces Itself As Player In U.S. … 
Will LIN TV Stations Go Dark On Time Warner Cable? 
RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Modern Family’, ‘Law … 
Hammond On Cannes: Paramount’s ‘Nebraska’ … 
Hot Trailer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ‘Don … 
Hammond On Cannes: A New Day Comes To The Fest As HBO and … 
Cannes: Fleming Reflects And Finds Talented Trio A Breath … 
Hot Trailer: ‘Man Of Steel’ 
CBS Wins Season & Ties Sweep In Demo; ABC Tops Adults … 
Cannes: Weinstein Co Acquires Keanu-Reese Sci-Fi Pic … 
It is unlikely Alec Baldwin will ever get an apology from American Airlines, so he decided to take things into his own hands. The popular Saturday Night Live host returned to the NBC sketch comedy show last night impersonating the captain of the American Airlines flight that kicked him off earlier this week for refusing to turn off his cell phone for takeoff. At least Baldwin stuck to only thrashing American Airlines, unlike his first post-incident statement that managed to also offend the bus company Greyhound.
TV Editor Nellie Andreeva - tip her here.
Loading ...
And this foul tempered loonatic would like to run for mayor of NYC? It’s sad that he thinks he can laugh off the total ass he made of himself (again), but then again he is SNL’s fav host so it’s time to try and repair the damage.
Foul tempered lunatic? Sounds like the perfect person to run that cesspool of a city. Have you met Koch, Guilaini, and that current egomaniac? (Probably the most insulting thing I could do to that guy is forget his name)
Oh, wait, you’d probably rather have someone level-headed and calm run for mayor. Like Trump
Well, ain’t you Mr. hoity toity…
Who thought that was funny? Why? Stop beating, you puny little heart inside Alec Baldwin’s pork belly.
Why has no one challenged him on the two different answers given as explanation to why he was on the phone?
In the first (his posting) he said people need to take care of business on their phones while the plane’s still on the tarmac then his PR people said he was playing Words with Friends and suddenly the situation switched.
Which was it?
Yeah, another passenger claimed he was talking on the phone to someone.
Capt. Steve Rogers of American Airlines… lol
I think I missed that announcement…
Baldwin is such a smug
he’s a good actor, but he’s doing this smarmy, ‘i’m worth it’ trip.
tazer!
Entitled much?
Admittedly funny. Any bets that the actual pilot sounded like and had a mustache like that?
Further, you can answer emails in between games of Words with Friends.
I’m sorry, I’m with the Baldwin on this one. Planes too often sit on the tarmac longer than a constipated man on the pot after Thanksgiving. There’s no sane, reasonable, or technically valid reason for pitching a fit over a phone while still sitting at the gate! except if it’s some power-trip.
Pathetic that you, Baldwin, or anyone else thinks they are so important, or their messages are so important that they can not or will not disengage from their phones for a few hours.
Sorry, Alec. Thanks for setting us straight.
There is both sane, reasonable, and technically valid reasons for having your electronic devices turned off while still at the gate or while sitting on the tarmac.
1. Aircraft instrumentation is in use at the gate, during push back, and sitting on the ground, despite not flying.
2. While newer aircraft are being built with more shielding to protect from stray electrical signals that may interfere with aircraft instrumentation, there are still a great many older aircraft still in service where this is not the case.
3. The demarcation for electronic devices to be turned off is when the aircraft doors are shut, as one of the safety procedures before push back and take-off.
Alec Baldwin in disregarding and disobeying both the safety regulations and legal requests of the flight crew, should have been arrested and cited. It is only because of his celebrity that he wasn’t, and the rest of America are now subjected to his pedantic, boorish, media tantrum.
Flights are routinely delayed hours on end and we’re expected to sit like quiet schoolchildren? No sending a text message to mom letting her know we’re delayed, no letting your friend know you’re going to be late because… of?
I understand the rules. You don’t understand how silly they are.
1. An IEEE study indicated at least 1 person forgets to turn off their phone per flight… and yet, somehow, the birds aren’t falling from the sky??
2. If, IF there were a real risk we’d be require to check them like liquids over 3oz and nail-clippers. (Airlines have the statutory authority to do so) Seriously, there are more than a few people who would love to crash a US Jet-Liner and you’re telling me all they have to do is turn on their cell phone? Really? No. REALLY?
Your logic seems akin to accepting rules are valid because they are rules.
To be fair, IEEE also says, “Our data and the NASA studies suggest to us that there is a clear and present danger: cellphones can render GPS instrument useless for landings.”
BUT, that’s why pilots land planes, not GPS.
For me it’s simple, the rule should be: “Plane Rolls, Phone Goes.” Having sat at a gate, parked for an HOUR, rules that make sense would make the world a happier place.
More importantly, as part of that long-winded speech about how your seat-cushion floats, include the RF warning. “Electronic devices (DVD players, laptops, phones) have been known to cause navigational errors and must be turned completely off during takeoff and landing for the highest level of safety.”
And we can just hope the ‘Terrorists’ don’t figure out how to use these cell phone things.
AA doesn’t owe Baldwin anything. I’ve seen preschoolers behave better.
AA should ban him from their flights. Getting up out of your seat when the is on the tarmac and its fasten seat belts sign is on, is grounds enough to me to ban Alec Baldwin from AA.
Hopefully, American Airlines will just let Baldwin continue acting like a jackass. In the end, no one will care.
Baldwin is still an ass.
He may be a terrible human being, but he’s hilarious. This was funny. If millions of people are willing to overlook Newt Gingrich’s many, many sins, I think we can still enjoy Alec Baldwin’s brilliant comic timing.
Alec Baldwin: What a self-entitled ass.
I have said he is an ass and put jack in front of that word.
You said “ass” and put “jack” in front of it? Wow, you must play Words With Friends. You are the most clever wordsmith I have ever encountered on all of the internets!
I detest these elitist Hollywood types. The community surrounds them and protects them. Whether you are a so-called “celebrity” or a regular citizen. You should obey the same rules. If not, you should be banned from commercial airlines. He can take his 99% bullshit and use his 1% status to book a private jet. The moron and hypocrite makes me sick.
What a deeply unpleasant human being… apparently it’s the airline’s fault if they do not fawn over a talentless self-important Hollywood b-lister who is not even half as intelligent as he thinks he is.
Of course the rest of us normal people just follow the rules because it doesn’t hurt anybody to be polite and considerate to airline employees.
Alec is a smug SOB who thinks he’s entitled, but a funny one.
anyone else think this was just viral marketing to get 30 Rock in the news since it is starting in January? (they probably cooked this whole thing up). It’s very Liz Lemon.. and there really IS no such thing as bad publicity!! see: Twilight. horrible reviews, tons of press coverage- $$$$$
not me.
As if only big bad Hollywood liberals are kicked off flights. Just a few days ago a country singer was kicked off Southwest for being too drunk to fly. Baldwin may have been in the wrong, but there’s no question that the flight attendants on the big, bankruptcy prone American airlines can be on a power trip. Do a google search on “kicked off plane” for the last few years. There was fat Kevin Smith, of course. But also a nursing mom, an autistic child, short skirt, coughing too much, Muslims praying, smelly, child tantrum, lesbian kissing, and Ivana Trump for being Ivana Trump.
Not to mention Josh Duhamel was booted for the same reason as Baldwin. Alec was probably being an ass here, but I fly enough to know that the airlines don’t exactly have a pristine record for over reacting.
When will America get an apology for 30 Rock?
He needs his mommy !!!!!!
Stephan skit was genius funny, first time I’ve laughed since sandler and pals.
I say good for Alex Baldwin for making an issue out of this. I was playing Suduko on my Itouch – not using WiFi, essentially the same as reading a book, and I was told by an Air Canada hag to turn it off ten minutes before landing.
When I informed the flight attendant that is was just a game not using any wireless or 3G waves, it did not matter. All she saw was an electronic device. How stupid is that. What about all the Kindle’s and Nook out there that people use in place of books. If it is okay to have a book on your lap, then why not a e-device.
American Airlines and all other airlines have to catch up the world and technology – not everyone who has a device open is interfering the plane’s electronic system.
If flight attendants could take the general public at their word…well they can’t. You just have to suffer because some of your fellow human beings are liars. Some people say that Baldwin is still lying. That he may have been playing some game at some point, but that he was talking to someone on the phone at least one of the times he was asked to turn it off.
So it’s “poor” Holly because you can’t play your little techno games whenever you want. Get a grip. The world is bigger and more interesting than you think.
Considering the facts that I’m afraid to fly and have to drink to get in the air, I probably would have drunkenly smashed you in the face with your electronic device.
I admit to be ignorant to the mechanics of flight (similar to you being ignorant of the spellings of names of people you care to comment about), but I don’t think I’d be “accepting your apology” if your little device somehow interfered with a function and dropped the plane into a nosedive.
(Probably wouldn’t happen, I know, but smashing you in the face with your iPad? ABSOLUTELY! Buy a book you self-absorbed $!&@#.)
you do get he was making fun of himself… right?
I saw the skit and I thought it sucked, very unfunny.
Winning…. right, Charlie?
Capt. Steve Rogers … you’re kidding. Cap hismelf!
And, is probably PR for 30 ROCK!