Charlie Sheen Jokes Flow at Alec Baldwin Tribute

By Denise Warner Posted Mar 1st 2011 12:30PM

Charlie Sheen did not attend The Museum of the Moving Image Salutes Alec Baldwin event in New York last night, but he was there in spirit.

The tribute to Baldwin's body of work was peppered with jabs at the troubled 'Two and a Half Men' star, whose one-man publicity tour makes him an easy target.

"I shudder to think what kind of low rent, 'Two and a Half Men' show we would have had without you," Tina Fey expressed to Baldwin as she spoke of '30 Rock.'

Badlwin's 'Beetlejuice' star Michael Keaton opened the night with a Charlie joke. "Alec Baldwin, whose real name is Chaim Levine," he quipped to audience laughter, referencing Sheen's shot at his boss Chuck Lorre. "Charlie hits it so hard, too. That's the thing."

Keaton then drifted into a short tangent about the implications of Charlie's vitriol toward Lorre. ("Would he say the same thing as 'Chuck Lorre's real name is Tommy Wilson'?")

Mercedes Ruehl had her turn when introducing a clip of Baldwin's 'State and Main,' which focuses "on an idealistic young playwright, a craven bottom-line director and an actor with a love for drink, partying and underaged girls," she explained. "We'll skip the cheap joke about Charlie Sheen."

"You don't hit a fellow actor when he's down," she added, perhaps a bit too late.

But the stars weren't only there to make fun of Charlie.

Keaton recalled his 'Beetlejuice' days. "One of the reasons it was so much fun was because of Alec's extraordinary patience with me," he said.

Jimmy Fallon told the story of his first meeting with the actor on the set of 'Saturday Night Live.'

"I had just started and I was very nervous. Alec was hosting. He said, 'You're one of the new guys. What's your name?' I go, 'Jimmy Fallon.' He goes, 'Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon, I'm going to say your name more than anyone's ever said your name on national television. Call your parents, call your relatives because I'm going to say Jimmy Fallon so many times tonight,'" Fallon described. "He's a man of his word. He said 'Jimmy Fallon' 10 times."

Others there to pay respects to Alec included Ben Stiller, Tim Curry, Edie Falco and Lorne Michaels.

During his speech, Baldwin was heartfelt and, as always, funny. "I know that many of you do not open your own mail and so you assumed that Lorne was the honoree tonight and I was the host, and that's all right. I know many of you are here to honor Lorne, but I am the honoree tonight."

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Tuesday 01 March

By Bonbon

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I wonder if they will all be laughing and poking fun if Charlie keels over from the drug addiction that is obviously frying his brain, then it will be sobs, sobs, they are so too faced and catty in that town.

By stu

Alec bro Daniel is just as bad as charlie.

By JEB BUCKINGHAM

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Why all the jokes about Charlie Sheen? Because he IS a joke, except that he's NOT funny at all, and no one is laughing.

By the_fool

Charlie is an a-hole. Thus the "butt of many jokes." This set actor/ actress(s) sure don't have a lot of room to talk. I would never think of Alec as a role model for anyone - including his own kids.

By John Boy

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"Xtina" should have been arrested and sentenced to life in prison for her latest rendition of what she thought was our National Anthem. What an IDIOT!!! Gag and puke, gag and puke...!!!

By huh

Why's everyone making fun of Charlie?

By Jstu

I am still waiting for Baldwin to leave the country as he promised if George bush was elected.His word does not mean a thing. To bad!

By Missy Schultz

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Why can they poke fun but when Ricky G. did at the Golden Globe Awards at them they got upset?

By anne

Alex is still in this country??I thought he opened his big mouth and said he was leaving if George Bush got reelected.......... well, maybe he can make the same promise if his boy Obama Doesn't get reelected--and lets see how that works out for him :)

By GinaNYC

Alec Baldwin never said he was leaving the country. Hannity said it and it got picked up as truth and has been repeated over and over again, no matter how many times he has denied it and the media has tried to put the record straight. Some other ill-informed nitwit (like you) always drags that up out of the rag bag and here we go again with the urban myth.

By nader paul kucinich gravel

What did Michael Jackson try to say?
Charlie Sheen questions Obama about 9/11
despite AIPAC controlled media censorship.
Mel Gibson does not play dumb about 9/11 either.

Another nitwit... *sigh*

Baldwin never left because he never said that in the first place. Get your facts straight.

By Anne

Thank you Mrs. Baldwin for attempting to change the record, er set the record straight....however, I choose to remember what he said back in 2000 before Bush got elected -and served 8years in office......Good luck with trying to change his words

But if you keep saying it enough and trying to defend him,people may believe you......"the sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, Alec never said he'd leave if Bush got elected"

By Godiva

Poor Alec! He looks AWFUL.
What a hunka hunka burnin' love he was.
If that is what booze does to you, you can have it.
I hope he isn't ill, bad liver/kidneys, etc.
He does not look well.

By simpsonsimpmike

Charlie Sheen Jokes?

Alec Baldwin is the biggest joke in Hollywood it is amazing how far being bed buddies with Clinton will get you.

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