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Kristen Wiig joins SNL’s post-election panel and gets ‘Westworld’ treatment

A group of political pundits following a repetitive script had a break in their regularly scheduled programming in a Saturday Night Live sketch last night.

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Host Kristen Wiig joined the cast as CNN political correspondent Dana Bash to discuss fake headlines about president-elect Donald Trump in a Westworld-esque sketch.

Westworld, a science fiction drama on HBO, is the story of a theme park full of robots who live a repetitive life for guest’s amusement.

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When Anderson cooper, played by SNL’s Alex Moffat, tells the group Trump wants security clearance for his kids, Wiig-as-Bash says “This isn’t like when Trump called women fat … this is different!”

The rest of the panel weighed in: “This isn’t normal,” “we cannot let him off the hook this time.”

When the same exchange — with a different headline — happens again and again, Moffat comments on the similarity before the entire cast freezes.

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Moffat gets replaced (just like they would in the show) and the skit continues, as if nothing was wrong.

Watch the full sketch above.

FULL COVERAGE: SNL covers the 2016 presidential election

 

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