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Alec Baldwin Spoofs His AA Incident in SNLSaturday Night Live’s most decorated guest host hit the 30 Rock stage again over the weekend.  After making headlines when he was unceremoniously kicked off an American Airlines flight last week, Emmy winner Alec Baldwin appeared on Saturday’s SNL to mock the entire debacle.

The 30 Rock star was booted off the Los Angeles to New York flight last Tuesday when he reportedly refused to quit playing the scrabble game “Words with Friends” as the plane prepared for take-off.  Baldwin claimed he was “singled out” for using his phone — that interferes with the plane’s communication system — while people around him did the exact same thing and slammed the airline for its poor service.  Sales expert and author Grant Cardone confirmed the situation tweeting that Alec Baldwin is getting kicked off AA flight as he tweeted.  Another passenger Michael J. Wolf, who happens to be the former president and COO of MTV Networks, expressed his displeasure with the situation.  He tweeted that he was on an AA flight at LAX and Alec Baldwin was removed from the plane.  He added that they had to go back to the gate noting that everyone had to wait.  The flight was delayed for an hour before Baldwin left the flight.  Representatives from Baldwin’s camp and American Airlines have not made any official statements.  The airline released a statement calling the actor “extremely rude.”

In a bid to lampoon the highly publicized incident, Baldwin appeared as a guest on the show’s Weekend Update segment as he pretended to be the American Airlines pilot on duty when he was kicked off.  His character, the heavily accented Captain Steve Rogers, issued an apology to Baldwin.  Mr. Baldwin is an American treasure and he was ashamed of the way he was treated.  “Would you really get on an airplane that flies 30,000 feet in the air if you thought a Kindle switch would bring it down?” Baldwin quipped as Rogers. “Come on it’s just a cruel joke perpetrated by the airline industry.

The segment’s host Seth Meyers asked if the plane was delayed, inviting Baldwin to have a dig at the airline again.  Captain Rogers replied that it did and it was the first time in the history of American Airlines that one of their flights was delayed joking that they are bankrupt and how dare they speak ill of the great Alec Baldwin and they cannot even take off on time.  But his amusing appearance — in which he playing himself impersonating an American Airlines pilot delivering a fake apology to himself — may not have done much to help his public image at a time when Baldwin is increasingly looking like a spoiled celebrity bully.  Already, Baldwin has written about his experience on the Huffington Post, giving not an inch to those who suggest maybe he was being a bit ingracious in the conflict.  The actor did deactivate his Twitter account after the set-to, joining James Franco and John Mayer in deciding that platform was a bit too much in the middle of a gossipy, worldwide contrversy.