Alec Baldwin's Greatest Role Yet: College Lecturer/Abraham Lincoln Impersonator
He's been Jack Donaghy. He was Jack Ryan when Chris Pine was still playing in the sandbox. And now Alec Baldwin is stepping into the shoes of the Abraham Lincoln. Isn't it funny how noted liberal Alec Baldwin only seems to play Republicans these days?
Baldwin showed up at Occidental College in Los Angeles Wednesday, in costume as our 16th President, as a suprise lecturer.
Baldwin surprised a U.S. Culture and Society lecture where he proceeded to deliver a lecture, in character, about the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education case, which found segregation to be unconstitutional in the United States. (And which was decided in 1954, 89 years after President Lincoln was assassinated.)
According to the Los Angeles Times, Baldwin also spoke about civil and gay rights, as well as energy policy, campaign finance reform, and government corruption.
Baldwin also snuck in a self-deprecating quip, while in character as Lincoln: "There's one thing I dislike, it's all these actors regurgitating their opinions all day. I was killed by an actor."
Baldwin's appearance at Occidental — President Barack Obama's alma mater — was just one in a series of "April Fools' Day pranks" in which various and sundry celebrities showed up at schools across the country to talk to students. (A quick aside: by no means or accepted definition of the word does this qualify as a "prank" but whatever you need to do to get kids excited about learning.)
The whole thing was orchestrated by Chevrolet and their #BestDayEver campaign. Kelly Clarkson also participated, throwing an impromptu concert in Los Angeles at The Grove. Clarkson sangseveral of her songs including, yes, "Since You've Been Gone."
The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus and Olivia Wilde also took part in the nationwide "prank" (seriously is no one else bothered by the fact that they're blatantly misusing this word?). Reedus talked to a class at St. John's University in New York City while Wilde spoke to a group enrolled in the Made in NY production assistants training program.
"Well, this was officially the #BestDayEver," Wilde wrote on Instagram. "Thank you to the students of Made in NY."
Now THIS is a prank:
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