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'SNL' Mocks CNN For Being Susceptible To Pranks (VIDEO)


First Posted: 5/7/10 Updated: 5/25/11

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Taking on CNN's reliance on viewers reporting via email, Twitter, and other social media outlets, last night SNL mocked the network's vulnerability to being pranked. Before showing a raunchy photo from a random college student, Wolf Blitzer (Jason Sudeikis) put it bluntly: "let's just put the photo on TV without even screening it." And the hits just kept on coming: tweets from "fingerblaster69" and unchecked videos from a dancing, baguette-wielding Zach Galifianakis.


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Taking on CNN's reliance on viewers reporting via email, Twitter, and other social media outlets, last night SNL mocked the network's vulnerability to being pranked. Before showing a raunchy photo fro...
Taking on CNN's reliance on viewers reporting via email, Twitter, and other social media outlets, last night SNL mocked the network's vulnerability to being pranked. Before showing a raunchy photo fro...
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