Alec Baldwin Doesn't Like John Oliver's Show (or Does He?)

Alec Baldwin might want to clarify his thoughts before he tweets. He faced backlash this week after he appeared to criticize John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Stephen Colbert for their treatment of accused sexual harassers. Baldwin said that shows like Oliver's and Colbert's have become more like "grand juries" than the "blithe chit chat" they used to be. Baldwin later appeared to hedge, saying that he wasn't actually taking a stance on the issue, but many Twitter users weren't buying it.

Via EW.com.

Alec Baldwin has some thoughts on the recent, contentious celebrity interviews conducted by John Oliver and Stephen Colbert.

On Wednesday morning, the actor tweeted, seemingly in criticism, that the two late-night hosts are contributing to a climate where celebrity “pit stops” are beginning to resemble something much more intense. “Talk shows were once promotional pit stops for some blithe chit chat about movies, etc,” Baldwin wrote. “Now the likes of [Oliver] and [Colbert] have flipped that and they are beginning to resemble grand juries.”

Quickly facing a backlash on the thread, Baldwin then clarified he did not express a “preference” in his initial comments before calling someone who criticized his “obtuse” language an “angry” and “harsh” person.

Baldwin’s comments came a day after video surfaced (via the Washington Post) of Oliver pressing Dustin Hoffman on the allegations of sexual misconduct which have been made against him.

Oliver was moderating a panel discussion for the 20th anniversary of the film Wag the Dog, and eventually brought the topic up, using the reasoning that “it’s hanging in the air,” much to Hoffman’s dismay. Oliver expressed dissatisfaction with Hoffman’s initial response about harassment allegations made by Anna Graham Hunter, in which he said “it didn’t happen the way she reported,” saying what Hoffman has said so far on the topic “feels like a dismissal.”

Hunter claims that Hoffman groped her and made inappropriate remarks to her in 1985 on the set of the TV film Death of a Salesman. In addition, producer Wendy Riss Gatsiounis told Variety that Hoffman propositioned her inappropriately in 1991. Hoffman released a statement to the Hollywood Reporter apologizing for anything he did to put Hunter in an uncomfortable situation, concluding, “It is not reflective of who I am.”

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