Gee, CNN is good for something after all. Who knew?

On Saturday night CNN will be streaming Live From New York from the fabled Winter Garden Theater, where back in 1967 I and several of my friends saw Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur in Mame, the penultimate performance of George Clooney as veteran CBS newscaster Edward R. Murrow in the play Good Night, and Good Luck.

“Although McCarthyism was bad, it wasn’t anywhere near as pervasive as it is right now, the kind of fear that you see kind of stretching through law firms and universities,” the actor and producer said.

During the McCarthy era, the senator used the country’s fear of the spread of communism to label political foes in government, education and entertainment as communists or communist sympathizers.

“Good Night, and Good Luck” “reminds people that we have been through difficult times, challenging times and that we survived it as a country,” Clooney said.

“We do find our better angels along the way,” he added. “It takes a minute.”

Clooney told Cooper that while ongoing efforts to chill news organizations by President Donald Trump make it “a scary time to be a news person,” he is believes “Trumpism” will eventually come to an end.

“To the people who like him, they think he’s funny,” Clooney said of Trump.

“To a great many others, they don’t,” he continued. “And so when he is finished – and he will be finished – they are going to have to go looking for someone that can delive the message that he delivered with the same kind of charisma and they don’t have that.”

There will be special live coverage hosted by Pamela Brown outside of the Winter Garden Theatre on CNN beginning 6:30 p.m. ET Saturday, where she will be joined on the ground by special guests of the Broadway production.

The Tony Award-nominated “Good Night, and Good Luck” will air live on CNN and CNN International and stream live without requiring a cable login via CNN.com/GoodNightGoodLuck and on connected TVs and mobile apps beginning at 7 p.m.

It will also stream live on Max across all subscription plans.

So it looks like there are plenty of ways to watch it. And, hey, I though Max was back to HBO Max these days?

By the way, the show has been sold out but the prices of seats at the Winter Garden range from $299 to $849. How’s that for inflation?