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This Saturday Night Live skit features Alec Baldwin playing Donald Trump and Kate Mckinnon playing Hillary Clinton. Saturday Night Live is a Live show by the second. There is no 7 second delay like in other live television shows. The article called "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers," talks about how speech is irreversible. In Saturday night Live this is the case. The actors read off cue cards so if they make a mistake they won't be able to take it back. The article also touches on how revision is very important and it must not be dismissed. Rewriting is also very important because it's very difficult to get something right on the first try. All the jokes Baldwin and McKinnon say took time. The writers have to write this in a short amount of time considering the debate happens a few days before the show goes live. The comedy in the skit focuses on making fun of the candidates and their flaws. The writers take things they say in the real debate and rephrase it in a way that it's comedy. They take a two hour plus debate and make it a ten minute skit. The writing is very important, but the way they portray the character is equally as important. Baldwin says China how Donald would say China in a very exaggerated way. Baldwin also uses the same voice and moves his hand up and down as Trump would. Michael Che is the interviewer who asks the questions and is able to see the nonsense between both people. The clothes they wear is the same and so is the background as the actual debate. Saturday Night Live had so much to work with since both Trump and Clinton had such polarizing ideas and big personalities.

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  1. Shane Herron31 August 2018 at 09:35

    What a great connection! I've never specifically thought of revision as a comedic topic, but it makes sense. Politicians are always learning that you can never take things back in speech!

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