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MOM, THIS NEWS SMELLS FUNNY: INSOMNIA PLUS CNN EQUALS HILARITY

johnvause

Does my stiff upper lip go with this tie?

Tuning in to CNN in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep last night turned out to be a far weirder experience than I had anticipated.  Maybe I wasn’t entirely awake but I thought the anchors were hilarious.  Seriously, it was like a carnival ride.  These were some of my thoughts:

-So I’m watching CNN right now and these two anchors have the most ridiculous accents – the woman in particular. For a moment it seemed I was watching some kind of parody. I can’t take these two seriously.  This is way funnier than Fox News.

-I am telling you. There are two daytime soap opera actors doing over the top English accents in charge of CNN’s anchor desk right now. And neither is Piers Morgan.

-There may be some Australian in these accents too.  Or some New Zealand.

-If you’re not watching CNN right now, you’re missing out. The male anchor that I am choosing to call Little Lord Flusterbudgett is interviewing a source and just seems so very bothered and embarrassed to have to be intruding so rudely and asking these intrusive questions. He’s also wearing the most ridiculous purple necktie. Apparently CNN could give a shit who hosts their overnight programming. I am mesmerized.

-Were it not for the very real tragedy they were reporting on I would think CNN was Punking us all right now

-These news anchors are so polite and so Austraenglish and so plastic. I feel like they’re going to try and seduce me by asking me if I have any Grey Poupon.

-Elizabeth Hurley as the Devil in that one movie? What was it called? Bedazzled? That’s who the woman anchor on CNN is reminding me of right now. I feel like Mother wants to punish be for being so naughty.

-I have decided to call this woman CNN anchor Emmanuelle Poppins.

rosemary

Just put your lips together and blow

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