Meredith and I watched the Saturday Night Live episode last night with Senator John McCain. It was actually funny, unlike most of their recent episodes. SNL seems to do some of its best work when they do political comedy -- and what better subject when you have a real Senator on the show?
The best skit was the 'Hardball' interview with an ACLU representative and John Ashcroft (played by McCain) talking about the war on terror. The skit did a really good job of capturing the absurdity on both sides. From the ACLU's "The Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are being denied their basic human rights. They can't practice their religion, they're not allowed access to their weapons, they can't even confer with their terrorist leader! It's appalling!" to Ashcroft's "We�ve got some real great stuff in the works. There's one plan that would make the Arab language, or anything that sounds like it, illegal."
It's hard to beleive that McCain actually did it, but it was SO funny.
His poking fun at Barbara Streisand ("Do I know how to sing? About as well as she knows how to govern America!") was also great (sorry, Linda).
Posted by Mike at December 1, 2002 08:39 PMIf Babs can take it, I suppose I can, too. Keep laughing!
Posted by: la on December 2, 2002 09:51 AM