‘SNL’ Mocks Brooke Baldwin, ‘CNN Newsroom’

By Brian Flood 

If you missed “Saturday Night Live” last week, then you missed one of the funniest news-related sketches in a long time. Cecily Strong played Brooke Baldwin in a skit featuring cartoon reenactments, Michael Keaton and a “highly accurate dramatization” of Indiana’s religious freedom law. A fake Don Lemon even makes a cameo.

“You’re watching the loose collection of daytime nonsense we call the “CNN Newsroom.” That means you’re either sitting in an airport, or you’re at home flipping through the channels and you’ve had a small stroke,” the fake Baldwin says to open the skit. Check it out below:

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