What started out as a quick cameo on “Saturday Night Live” playing then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has turned into the role of a lifetime for Alec Baldwin. Aside from a second straight season of portraying Trump on “SNL,” Baldwin is now offering fans a satirical look at the president’s first 100 days in office in the parody memoir “You Can’t Spell America Without Me,” co-written with Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen. On Monday’s Stern Show Alec told Howard his decision to put out this book quite literally started out as a joke.

While at an event to promote his autobiography “Nevertheless,” released last spring, Alec was asked what he would be working on next. “I jokingly said, ‘Oh I’m gonna write a parody memoir of Trump’s first 100 days in office.’ And they all burst into applause,” Alec recalled for Howard. “So I lean over to my agent, I go, ‘We gotta get on this right away.’”

Putting out such a book fell under the agreement Alec has with “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels, who technically owns the characterization that Baldwin does on the late-night series. “My rendering of it is his intellectual property,” Alec explained. “As it should be.”

Alec also credited his former “30 Rock” costar Tina Fey for first suggesting he should portray Trump and pointed to “SNL’s” writers as the ones who write the material that makes him such a hit on the show.

“I just showed up,” Alec said.

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