Alec Baldwin playing with his kids is wholesome content for your weekend

Imagine having Alec Baldwin as a dad during quarantine. Would he just be walking around the house constantly telling you to "Always Be Closing," like in Glengarry Glen Ross? Would he put on the SNL Trump wig and yell at CNN that it’s fake news (that would be kinda fun actually)? Turns out, on Thursday night when he was interviewed via video-chat by Jimmy Fallon for The Tonight Show: At-Home Edition, he proved he’s actually quite the paterfamilias. Yes, we’re talking about the same Alec Baldwin here. It’s true, he’s adorbs with his pipsqueaks.“I mean, what can be better than this, you know?” he sardonically told Jimmy as his daughter Carmen tried repeatedly to hijack his interview while wife Hilaria laughed in the background. “Cooking every night, we're cleaning the kitchen. We're doing laundry. We're watching the kids. Put them to bed at night. And just being with the kids all day. Every minute of every day. We're not working. I don't have a job. Nothing is going on. But the kids are... just great. It's just... great.”“Oh, my,” Jimmy exclaimed. “He's cracking.”Yeah, who is this and what have you done with Alec Baldwin? It’s quite sweet to see Alec horsing around the joking with his kids, considering his historic reputation for having a short fuse. He even mocked that temperamental reputation by starting off the interview with a diabolical laugh-off with Jimmy (sorry, Alec wins that competition any day of the week), but quickly abandoned it when daughter Carmen wanted to pull a little prank on Jimmy. Actually, Carmen Baldwin got quite a lot of screentime until she tried to totally derail the interview by asking Jimmy to let his daughter Winnie join them. That didn't fly.Alec and Jimmy also had a parental brainstorm that might prove useful to any parent wondering what they're going to do with the kiddos this weekend. Have you tried playing Chutes and Ladders or Candyland backwards? Have you tried locking your kids in the basement and telling them it's an escape room? Hmm. (On the more adult front, Alec is a BIG fan of the HBO sleeper hit The Outsider starring Jason Bateman and the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm).