We thought, what if he still wanted to do a show in the Oval Office?
He certainly doesn’t want to do the president part.
What if this is his one release during the week?
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It’s inspired by the Fireside Chats.
He says if FDR did it, then I can do it too.
The idea was also inspired by, where’s Trump’s zeitgeist?
Trump’s zeitgeist is probably Carson,The Dinosaur Show, Mike Douglas.
That’s sort of what he is.
That’s where I’m trying to approach him, that gives it a unique signature.
The way we resolve that feeling is through analysis, news, information, but also through humor.
Humor is what gets people through the Depression and different periods.
This notion of it being beyond satire is a very dangerous idea.
You’ve been impersonating Trump since the campaign.
This is really learning on the job, because I first improvised him on August 24 of 2015.
Then when I started doing the weekly show, I started sketching him as I saw him.
I did my due diligence in studying him.
I always say he’s like C3PO and the Ewoks inReturn of the Jedi.
He would always start with “there were 17” and he would tell the story of the primary.
So then you got Prompter Trump, who is like a grandmother readingGoodnight Moonto somebody.
He couldn’t resist commenting.
Then he got elected, and now his press conferences are like a lower version of Rally Trump.
In his mind, it’s what he thinks is presidential.
He’ll probably go through other permutations.
Will you be mixing these different versions of him on the show?Depending on the circumstance.
Fortunately, I’ve been doing him for so long that’s not an issue.
What I get to do is pick and choose.
I like to modulate him.
He gets intense and then reframes or gets serious.
I always say that doing him is like composing a song while you’re playing it.
He has phrases, refrains, melodies he’s actually very musical in the way he speaks.
I studied it like an actor.
I really wanted to know how to play him.
That to me is the highest compliment.
It’s the combination of what I’m bringing to it and I’m just lucky.
That’s one thing I can say that I know nobody else who does this can do.
So I’m very happy about that.
The President Showpremieres April 27 on Comedy Central.
