{"id":170549,"date":"2023-02-05T05:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T05:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=170549"},"modified":"2023-02-05T05:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T05:17:02","slug":"saturday-night-live-turns-around-a-breaking-news-cold-open-featuring-interview-with-the-fallen-chinese-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/saturday-night-live-turns-around-a-breaking-news-cold-open-featuring-interview-with-the-fallen-chinese-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saturday Night Live’ Turns Around A \u2019Breaking News\u2019 Cold Open Featuring Interview With The Fallen Chinese Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saturday Night Live <\/em>quickly turned around the news about the U.S. military’s takedown of the Chinese balloon that floated over U.S. airspace for much of the week. <\/p>\n Just hours after cable news covered the strike that sent the balloon into the East Coast, SNL<\/em> opened with its own news report on the latest developments, featuring an MSNBC interview with the balloon itself, played by Bowen Yang.<\/p>\n “Well, I’m sorry you are in the water, but thank you for speaking to us,” Katy Tur asks the balloon.<\/p>\n But the indignant balloon tells Tur, “I entertain you people for four days but then get shot down by Biden! I can’t believe I’m Joe’s Osama.”<\/p>\n “What were you doing flying over Montana?” Tur asks.<\/p>\n The balloon answers, “I love the show Yellowstone. It’s like Succession<\/em>, but outside.”<\/p>\n Tur then notes, “I’m actually surprised you’re still floating. Experts were saying you’re the size of three buses.”<\/p>\n The balloon answered, “Okay. Ouch. I’m a balloon, so, that’s my body. How would you like it if someone measured your width in buses? Sorry I am not camera ready<\/em>.” <\/p>\n The clever segment worked because it focused on a single news topic of the week, skewering the national obsession with the balloon right down to the coverage earlier on Saturday. <\/p>\n More to come.<\/em><\/p>\nRelated Story<\/h4>\n
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