Boy, John McCain didn’t seem to get the joke last night on Saturday Night Live. Having him on the show was the final nail in the coffin. The show’s writers, though smartly avoiding hitting it too squarely on the nose, basically succeeded in making him look sad and desperate. Borderline Dole desperate. And not in the ironic, self-deprecating way either.
It’s in the subtle glance Seth Meyers gives him on Weekend Update when McCain asks, “You know how they call me the maverick?” Easily painted as a joke — “Duh, of course I know they call you that, you always talk about it” — that kind of thing. But the “look” was so strangely unnecessary that it seems to be working on another level. If the boos during that segment didn’t sell the moment enough, that is.
Anyway, just caught up with it on DVR and it’s the first thing that popped into my head. Other than, “Give Kristen Wiig her own show already,” that is.