I called him about something completely different, to ask him to participate in a sort of seminar listening session for an arts commission that I'm associated with. LITHGOW: It's funny, Joe and I had been out of touch for a good year or two. Trump and his entire administration, and it's so delicious writing satirical comedy about these people because they are larger than life comic figures - if they weren't such figures from a horror show. I'm the least likely Bull satirist in the world, but this really captured my imagination. They were so primed for a little piece of Trump satire. I've never heard a public theater audience laugh and cheer so hard. What inspired me was I gave this performance for the public theater at a gala in New York City where they asked me to sing the "Major-General" song from The Pirates of Penzance, and I rewrote the third verse and performed it all in the character of Michael T. The first one was more lighthearted, but I started the second one, and immediately we had impeachment proceedings, and we had a coronavirus epidemic, and we had Black Lives Matter and economic collapse that you can't be lighthearted about. JOHN LITHGOW: Things are getting darker by the day.
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