Charlie Sheen Jokes Flow at Alec Baldwin Tribute

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."