Senator McCain made a somewhat impromptu appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend. He did a 3-minute deadpan monologue then dropped by Weekend Update for a few minutes with some more jokes. While I didn’t find anything to be laugh-out-loud funny, it’s fantastic the campaign managed to get McCain on the air for a few minutes in front of a predominantly under-30 audience. Obama has routinely routed Hillary by 65-35 margins among voters age 18-29 in the Democratic Primaries and McCain simply cannot allow that in the general election. The most heartening thing to take away from this weekend’s SNL experience is the pop McCain got when he was introduced. I didn’t hear any boos and there were several raucous screams. The intro and first segment is below.
