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Alec Baldwin tells us about 'Match Game's' biggest drinkers and giving up his 'SNL' Trump role

For the fourth straight year, actor Alec Baldwin will be wah-wah pedaling back onto ABC for another season of "Match Game" starting Sunday. Baldwin wields the skinny microphone made famous by the Goodson-Todman Productions show's founding host Gene Rayburn in the 1970s, while the celebrity guest panelists have upheld the original's boozy, bawdy atmosphere. We asked Baldwin, 61, why an Academy Award-nominated star wants to give away prize money - and give up being President Trump on "Saturday Night Live."

Full disclosure - I was in a cab in downtown Manhattan when I saw you on the street and called out to you how much I like "Match Game."

I remember that and I was glad I had security with me that day.

It's fun. The first time I did

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