Baldwin also made a reference to Lemon’s earlier complaint about what a terrible year 2016 has been. Lemon apparently expressed interest in getting a tattoo of something involving President-elect Trump on his manhood.
The Baldwin-Lemon segment officially ends with CNN smartening up long enough to cut off Lemon’s mic and end the segment.
The New York Post described that as the bands started to play “Auld Lang Syne,” the cameras cut away to celebrating crowds and fireworks bursting in air, but the sounds of clinking glasses could still be heard.
Lemon could be heard shouting “Oh my God! I need a little more, pour me a little more, a little more. Perfect. That had a big head on it. I can’t hear a damn thing. So, 2016 was awful.”
Suddenly, the sound went out and the raucous Big Easy crowds went silent. And when the audio was restored, Lemon and Baldwin were gone.
During the New Year’s Eve of 2015 to welcome 2016, the insufferable feminist and alleged comedian Kathy Griffin bare naked alongside host Anderson Cooper during the CNN New Year’s Eve broadcast. Apparently, the news network has not learned its lesson from last year’s broadcast and decided to do an encore with Lemon.