The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd reports on the latest floundering of CNN: Anderson Cooper to appear before a live audience? (Insert joke here.) Hibberd's joke is to compare putting the dour Cooper in front of a live audience to adding a laugh-track to a funeral:
A studio audience for a serious news program is a bit like adding a laugh track to a eulogy, so it's unclear how this is going to work with Anderson, who's an agreeable enough newsreader and interviewer but not exactly the sort of chap you can picture wooing a live audience. The network would only confirm the format will be "conversational."
