Scott uses clips from Alec Baldwin’s infamous angry voicemail to his daughter to prank-call a rude driver who had sworn at Scott’s mum on the road.
Scott recounts an incident from a couple of weeks earlier when a motorist had pulled out in front of his mum on the avenue and, after getting out of his car, shouted extremely rude words at her. Rather than confront the driver at the time, Scott had taken down his mobile number from a car-for-sale sign in the back window. The driver has since refused to apologise.
Drawing a parallel with Alec Baldwin’s recent notorious voicemail to his 12-year-old daughter—which had made headlines after being leaked online—Scott decides to use clips from Baldwin’s angry, profanity-laden message as material for a prank call. The Baldwin voicemail, in which the actor berates his daughter for not picking up the phone when he called at a specific time, provided perfect comedic raw material: angry, over-the-top, and completely absurd when played to an unsuspecting stranger.
Scott makes several calls to the rude driver, playing the Alec Baldwin clips down the phone line. The escalating voicemail excerpts—featuring Baldwin’s increasingly heated insults calling his daughter a “rude, thoughtless little pig” and worse—are left as messages, creating an absurdist confrontation where the driver receives fragments of celebrity rage completely out of context. It’s a distinctly Scott Mills approach: turning a real grievance (defending his mum) into comedy through public humiliation and the unexpected mashup of current news stories.
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