Obama and McCain’s Stand-Up Comedy at the Al Smith Foundation Dinner

by on October 16, 2008 in Celebrity, Mass Media, Politics, Television, YouTube

One Presidential debate should be hosted on Comedy Central and start off with comedic monologues. Humor puts some of the peripheral issues like comparing McCain to Bush in context much better than just trying to explain it seriously. John McCain turns out to be an excellent non-angry and gracious comedian, revealing a sympathetic character that he hasn’t shown during his campaign.

YouTube got it up within a few hours of the Al Smith Foundation dinner:

Update 10/16/08 11:30pm PDT: Steven Weber at Huffington Post agrees with me that this funny John McCain is the way he should have run his candidacy. Fire his handlers! Al Gore had the same “serious” problem in 2000, and we found out he was funny too.

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Moira

am sure if McCain would have been as civil from the onset and chose someone other than Sarah Palin for his running mate, he would have gotten more votes.

No offense but who was that elderly man that kept eating and chewing behing McCain and Obama?

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Joshua Jarvis

I agree both candidates were so much more likeable than than were during the debates.

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Irina Netchaev

I didn't have a chance to see this live so really enjoyed both videos. It's amazing how both of them were able to pull the comedy act off. Thanks for sharing Pat!

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