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SNL alum considered himself a devout Democrat — until he got a call from Trump

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The former 'Saturday Night Live' comic has written a book, 'Average Joe: The Memoirs of a Blue-Collar Entertainer'​


Joe Piscopo was an "old Blue Dog Democrat" in 2016 when he received a phone call from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign team.

The "Saturday Night Live" alum, who had been longtime pals with "The Donald," was asked to do a speech at the Tampa fairgrounds. At the time, the celebrity businessman was running for president.

In his new memoir, "Average Joe," the comic and actor wrote that he knew that publicly supporting Trump would be "the forever death knell, the nail in my coffin in Hollywood."

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