John McCain could shoot a Laser Cat and still not get my vote

Posted by Dan May 21st, 2008 at 01:03pm In SNL The Gays

Saturday Night Live has become the go-to place as of late for political opportunity. Political satire, of course, but also opportunity.

Like The Daily Show, it’s where campaign advisors tell candidates to go so that they can really relate to the young people. They’ll use words like “viral” and hope that young people with polo shirts will put down their Wiis long enough to shuffle to the poll on the election day.

Now that John McCain has made his appearance on SNL, we can now say that the future president of the United States will have considered the show important enough to make an appearance on. (See Barack here, see Hillary here)

In case you haven’t seen it, here’s one of the two bits that John McCain did on the season finale of SNL.

I’m really tripped up, as you may guess, by the fact that he had to discuss gaydar. It’s a term that I’m probably pretty sure doesn’t get tossed around the McCain household too much.

When he says, “Now I don’t know if this is anti-gay, or pro-gay, or if such a device would even work. But I do know this — Jamming gaydar is not a federal responsibility,” it’d be funny if it was Darrell Hammond. Or funnier, at least.

But when I saw that, I remembered this.

No matter how many sketch comedy shows he does or even if he does a surreal drop-in on 30 Rock, I don’t think I’d be able get past it.