I just saw one of the funniest things...

I was watching Fox News, to which I am inexplicably addicted, during one of its midday shows with Linda Vester and Shepherd Smith. The two anchors seemed genuinely irritated as they introduced a skit that Saturday Night Live had apparently done this week spoofing Vester and Smith's show. Vester suggested that her producers were actually taking both of them to task for behaving on air in a way that would give SNL any material. Anyway, so they roll the tape of the skit and it's really funny. It's centered around Fox's obsession with the upcoming Blake murder trial and how the network is continually trying to make parallels between it and the OJ Simpson trial. It included a hilarious bit by Darrell Hammond doing his new, best impersonation of Geraldo Rivera.

When the SNL bit was over, Smith and Vester shifted uncomfortably in their seats and stumbled through some dialogue about how the SNL players didn't look anything like them (!). I couldn't believe how seriously they seemed to be taking it. After a moment they seemed relieved to turn their attention to the "real news."

First story up? An interview with their on-scene reporter covering Robert Blake's arraignment in L.A., during which the guy repeatedly compared the upcoming trial to the O.J. Simpson trial...