Stephen Colbert & Ellen DeGeneres Give CNN's "Facts First" Campaign A Different Take | THR News - video Dailymotion

The TV hosts tackled the network's new marketing campaign with parodies of their own.

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00:00This is an apple. Some people might try to tell you that it's a banana.

00:05Have you seen CNN's new ad for its Facts First campaign? The spot denounces

00:09President Donald Trump's fake news claims using an apple. Ellen DeGeneres and

00:14Stephen Colbert both took the ad one step further on their shows and things got

00:17B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Now, DeGeneres, as a woman of the people, broke down the ad by

00:22doing a live demonstration. The apple represents the facts. The banana stands

00:26for fake news. And all of this is in response to the things that the

00:30president has said. He'll be represented by this orange. She also brought out a

00:35pineapple wearing a wig and glasses to represent CNN host Anderson Cooper. And

00:40to make sure her audience was following along, DeGeneres gave them a little

00:43quiz. Can you tell that this is a banana? Wrong. It's plastic. It's fake. The talk

00:49show host concluded the complicated segment by saying, I hope we learned

00:53something about what's real or not real. And I hope we learned a lot about fruit

00:56food as well. This cost me $53 at Whole Foods, you guys. Over on CBS's The Late

01:01Show, Colbert also wanted to make sure his audience really understood the

01:04message that the fruitful ad was trying to convey. The host explained that he

01:08personally found the spot to be a bit subtle, so he decided to come up with a

01:12slightly more honest version. As Colbert said, see if you can pick up on the

01:16message.

01:16They'll say the banana did a great job helping Puerto Rico. You'll say, actually,

01:21most of the island is still lacking pa-

01:22STAND FOR THE NATIONAL BANANTHEM!

01:24The spoof also tackled White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the

01:28Russians, and it ended with this.

01:30Now, orange, you ready to impeach?

01:32But just to make sure it was completely clear, the last frame displayed a very

01:36straightforward message. That was about Trump. To watch both DeGeneres and Colbert's full

01:41takes on the CNN fruit ad, head to THR.com and let us know what you thought of their

01:45spoofs in the comments. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor. Have a great day.