SNL critiques vacuous TV news shows with a clever Westworld twist
Saturday Night Live skewered vacuous TV news shows with a clever parody of HBO's epic robot drama Westworld. The skit begins normally enough on the set of Anderson Cooper 360, where Cooper and a variety of talking heads settle into a too-familiar routine. As Cooper announces a breaking news item about President-elect Donald Trump, his panelists weigh in:
"Okay, you know what? This is not normal."
"This is crazy!"
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"This isn't like [some other Trump scandal]."
"This is when we in the media have to draw the line!"
"Mmkay, can we just remember that most Americans voted for Trump?"
"Actually, they didn't, Kayleigh!"
The first time around, the answers come off as a standard SNL critique of cable news. But as Cooper shares each new story the analysis takes a repetitive turn. Watch the whole sketch below. Bonnie Kristian
