June 22, 2008

Bizarre!

John McCain on "Saturday Night Live" in 2002.
Posted by Ann Althouse at 12:22 PM
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8 comments:

IgnatzEsq said...

McCain was funnier on SNL this year than Obama and Clinton combined times 3.

This one, well, this just kinda creeps me out.

6/22/08, 1:05 PM
Peter Hoh said...

I remember that skit. The whole thing was set up as a Lifetime made-for-TV movie about a stalker, with the husband cast as the stalker, with no suggestion that he was really a stalker, other than his being male.

6/22/08, 1:18 PM
J. Cricket said...

What is so bizarre about a creep playing a creep?

6/22/08, 2:34 PM
Kirby Olson said...

Clearly enjoying himself.

6/22/08, 2:52 PM
John Stodder said...

I gather it was Chris Matthews who found this. I gather there is supposed to be an equivalency made here between McCain playing a creepy guy and Al Franken's various writings that have gotten him in trouble.

Nice, Chris. Yeah, you're the new Russert. Exactly.

6/22/08, 2:59 PM
Padre Steve said...

Yes, that was pretty creepy. However, Chris Matthews is creepy every night he is on tv!

6/22/08, 3:31 PM
blake said...

Anyone have the whole thing?

Looked kinda funny.

McCain shouldn't grow a Van Dyke.

6/22/08, 4:14 PM
BJK said...

IIRC, McCain wasn't playing a stalker, but the Lifetime Movie version of a Husband who kept invading his wife's personal space. The "real life" author of the story was on a fictional talk show (in the SNL sketch) setting up the clip from the movie.

In other words, it was an SNL sketch where they showed a clip from a fake movie during a fake TV show.
(Thank God the script didn't have him calling his wife a Trollop...)

Now someone needs to find a clip of "McCain sings Streisand" from the same episode when he hosted SNL back in '02.

6/23/08, 11:11 AM

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