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‘SNL’ Alum Victoria Jackson dishes on decades-long beef with Alec Baldwin

Saturday evening live alum Victoria Jackson fired back at Alec Baldwin for calling her breasts “trash cans,” deepening a feud that dates back to a negative encounter they had during Baldwin’s April 1990 SNL hosting gig.

About Fly On The Wall by fellow alumni Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast On Wednesday, Jackson confronted the hosts with Baldwin’s comment he made during their show last June.

“We need to talk about Alec Baldwin,” Jackson said, “because he was in Fly On The Wall, he said my boobs looked like trash cans.” When Spade and Carvey asked her what he meant by that, she said, “That’s what I want to know.”

Baldwin described “the only time I ever broke was when we did that.” SNL” when he visited the podcast last year. “Victoria Jackson is there, and they got her all dressed up — and her breasts are like two trash cans sticking in your face,” Baldwin said last year.

Spade and Carvey suggested that Baldwin may have been complimenting the size of her breasts, but Jackson disagreed and also objected to Carvey telling Baldwin in that episode that Jackson was trying not to “fall in love with him” when he was hosting. “I don’t remember it that way,” Jackson said Wednesday.

Furthermore, she believes Baldwin disagreed with what she wrote about him in her 2012 book: Is my arch too big? Jackson described what she wrote about Wasn’t That Special: 50 Years of by Christian Schneider and Scot Bertram. SNL podcast earlier this year. In 1990, “Alec was sitting next to me on set and he asked me why my breasts were so big,” she said. “That is rude, caustic and inappropriate.”

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Episode 18 - Pictured: (l-r) Alec Baldwin, Victoria Jackson during the monologue on April 21, 1990 - Photo by: Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE – Episode 18 – Pictured: (l-r) Alec Baldwin, Victoria Jackson during the monologue on April 21, 1990 – Photo by: Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank NBC/NBC Universal via Getty Images

“I didn’t know if he was flirting with me or if he was mean, it was kind of a mix,” but “I think he heard about (the book) and Alec has been mean to me ever since.”

Being an outspoken far-right conservative and fan of convicted sex abuser former President Trump, Jackson believes Baldwin “probably” targeted her because “our political views are opposite, and I’ve said that too when he does an impression of Trump“He’s got hate in him,” she added, “so he probably read that.”

Baldwin, for his part, has not publicly commented on the anecdote from Jackson’s book, but Jackson is adamant that she never showed romantic interest in him, despite what Carvey has said. “I didn’t say, ‘I’m not going to fall in love,’” Jackson said on Wasn’t That Special: “That’s Dana’s twisted, weird memory.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Jackson talked about how her agent dropped her due to “political correctness,” which she said effectively ended her stand-up career in the 1990s.

While opening for colleague SNL alumnus Joe Piscopo said she sang “this little song called ‘White Men are Good,’ which she unfortunately sampled on the podcast.” “White men are good / My father was a white man / My brother is a white man / White men invented everything / White men invented the universities / White men invented the English language,” she sang, to Carvey and Spade’s nervous laughter.

“I sang that song and the crowd was like (gasp),” she said, because it was the beginning of “you can’t say things,” even though “white men were getting a bad rap,” Jackson said. “They told my agent at APA and she said, ‘I can’t send you out anymore.’”

Jackson, who recently revealed a fatal cancer diagnosis, has barely worked since. But, as she told her former castmates this week, “I still wanted to quit.”

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