Making light of Phillips’ gaffe, anchor Kiran Chetry, having returned from a commercial break, was interrupted by an off-air "personal" conversation taking place between fellow F&F anchors Steve Doocy and Mike Jerrick.
The transcript of the F&F skit is behind the cut:
Kiran Chetry: "All right, welcome back to 'Fox and Friends First' on this Wednesday morning. We're going to take a quick look at some of the other headlines, including heading down to Washington D.C. and checking with Megyn Kendall in just a couple minutes here."
(Mike Jerrick and Steve Doocy are off screen, but audio overlaps)
Mike Jerrick "I mean, she seems okay."
Steve Doocy: "Who? This girl you're dating?"
Jerrick: "This girl I've been dating. Just a couple weeks ago. She met my sister. My sister says, okay, she's cool. She's cool."
Doocy: "Where'd you meet her?"
Jerrick: "But I don't know. Uh, at a convention actually."
Doocy: "Really? Shriners?"
Jerrick: "Amway."
Doocy: "Okay, good."
Jerrick: "I mean, she seems cool. See, I, I don't know. I just got a bad feeling about-"
Doocy: "She a control freak? Is she a control freak?"
Jerrick: "I get that sense that-"
Doocy: "Really? Yeah. Be careful."
Jerrick: "Kind of like my ex-wife, Joy. You know, you know her of course."
Doocy: "Sure. A good person."
(Doocy and Jerrick now onscreen)
Jerrick: "A control freak, no question about it. And that's really the reason why we're-"
Unidentified FOX News employee: "Steve, Steve and Mike. Your mics are on. So they've been hearing this whole conversation on air."
Doocy: "So? We're in a commercial."
Unidentified FOX News employee: "No. I believe that they've been hearing everything that you've been saying."
Second Unidentified FOX News employee: "Oops."
Doocy: "About the control freak part."
Jerrick: "Yeah."
Hat tip to my MRC colleague Scott Whitlock, who alerted me to the Fox "re-enactment."
