Commentary: On SNL, a scientific presentation to VCs goes awry when a machine translates a dog’s thoughts and they’re not what a liberal wants to hear.
“What? You want me to lie? ”
Some of my liberal friends are among the most conservative people I know.
” Saturday Night Live ” decided to offer a little fair balance, as it skewered a scientific community that can sometimes lean so far to the left that it’s lying down on its left ear.
Here we have Scarlett Johansson and two pseudo-scientific colleagues making a presentation to venture capitalists .
The revolutionary technology on display here is a machine that translates a dog’s thoughts. Johansson’s character has brought her own ugly-cutie little dog, Max, to show how it works.