SNL's Anderson Cooper 360 Sketch Gets A Westworld Twist

On last night's episode of Saturday Night Live, former cast member Kristen Wiig (Ghostbusters) — who received five Emmy nominations during her seven seasons on the show — hosted for the second time.

Although ratings took a dip from Dave Chappelle's post-election episode last week, there were plenty of funny moments to be had, such as Alec Baldwin's in-over-his-head Donald Trump meeting with Jason Sudeikis's Mitt Romney, progressive liberals literally living in a Bubble to get away from Trump's America, and a Target commercial encouraging people who can't deal with their family during Thanksgiving to use their parking lot and store as an excuse to get out of the house.

However, I personally enjoyed the Anderson Cooper 360 sketch with the Westworld twist, which pointed out the mainstream media's ineffectual Trump coverage. It begins with Cooper bringing up one Trump scandal after another, and each time, his panelists repeat — almost verbatim — the same toothless sentiments. At the end, it is revealed that the show is on a Westworld-like loop. And as it tends to happen on the HBO series, everyone that is a Host freezes as a clean-up crew (wearing red-and-white hazmut suits) comes into to repair the malfunctioning robots.

Created for television by Jonathan Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Person of Interest) and Lisa Joy (Pushing Daisies, Burn Notice), both of whom are executive producing and writing, with Nolan also directing, the series was inspired by the 1973 motion picture Westworld, written and directed by Michael Crichton.

The cast features Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, Ed Harris as The Man in Black, Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, James Marsden as Teddy Flood, Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, Sidse Babett Knudsen as Theresa Cullen, Jimmi Simpson as William, Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton, Shannon Woodward as Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Armistice, Ben Barnes as Logan, Angela Sarafyan as Clementine Pennyfeather, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, and Clifton Collins, Jr. as Lawrence.

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"The Well-Tempered Clavier" episode of Westworld will air Sunday, November 27 at 9|8c.