McCain Appears On Conan, Pretends To Fall Asleep (VIDEO)

How old is John McCain? So old, the jokes about it are getting old.

So at a taping Friday night of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," the host asked the Republican presidential candidate for some new material.

"We all agree on a take on you, which is your seniority," O'Brien said, as McCain, 71, pretended to fall asleep in his chair.

Speaking for all late night comedians, O'Brien said, "we're tired of this take on you," and asked the Arizona senator to give them some fresh material.

"Do you have a kooky uncle, do you have bad breath, webbed toes, anything?" O'Brien asked.

"All of the above," McCain answered before offering up alternative fodder.

"I was able to get shot down, intercept a surface-to-air missile with my plane," said the former Navy pilot and Vietnam War prisoner of war.

"People don't really laugh at that," O'Brien pointed out.

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McCain got in some jokes of his own, poking fun at "the cable monsters," his new name for cable news networks.

McCain, who has already had one cable movie made about his life, was then subjected by O'Brien to a series of casting suggestions for another movie about his quest for the presidency and his current search for a running mate.

Playing McCain? Tim Conway. Playing one-time Republican rival Mitt Romney? "Any local weatherman," said O'Brien.

Watch clips from his appearance:

Comments

[gonnuts]

If any of you think this isn't scripted I have a timeshare to sell you in beautiful downtown Baghdad.

[kidshare]

Of course its scripted. So's that visit by that O guy to the middle east

[Danigirl65]

Scripted or not, McCain cannot carry off a joke. This was almost funny in a pathetic way.

[Danigirl65]

Give me a break. Again, a case of "damned if you do and damned if you don't." First, he's attacked because he hasn't been and now he's being attacked because he is there. Goes to prove the Repubs are really scared of this guy and have nothing else to hold onto.

[KristaJulieva]

I'm an Obama supporter, but it's annoying as all get out when some of the kool-aid drinkers won't give credit to McCain for being funny as hell. And that includes the Iran-cigarettes thing, stuff like that.

[syrupcore]

I'm mostly with you - this appearance was funny. Give him credit. Cigarettes killing Iranians was not at all funny though. That's dangerous talk from some one who wants to lead the country. Completely not OK.

[kellygrrrl]

even if I concede your point that he is funny
the real point is we are not looking for America's Funniest President

we are not in a position to joke right now

p.s. I truly do resent the kool-aid line

[GLaB]

"p.s. I truly do resent the kool-aid line"

Too bad. If the pink moustache fits, wear it.

[NoahVail]

Yeah, he's a riot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s7kEb6Osqc&feature=related

[partisanpolitico]

He's a guy you can have a beer with....no wait, we tried that.
I know, his joke writers are folks you could have a beer with.

[kidshare]

You mean Conan's

[JamesInDenver]

Wow, he's not even in office yet and he's already relying on the Bush shtick to get by. We need a President who won't run out of material during the first act. This guy's as big an idiot as Bush. He's acting just like the class clown.

[aturner18]

Come on all you O fans. You have to admit that was funny.

[Cookie100]

If you're planning on voting for an ELDERLY man for POTUS, you deserve what you get!

[TheBrizz]

It would be funny if there weren't so many other, far more serious issues about him that genuinely frighten us.

[lincat]

I have to admit aturner that it was not funny.

[aturner18]

get a life. O was funny when he did "Monday NIght Football" and that was funny too.

[kidshare]

That's the problem with the left. No humor. Make everyone as miserable as you and then you feel better. Talk about schtick

[soithoni]

And that's the problem with the right. No humor. You do make everyone miserable because then *you* feel better. Talk about ego. Talk about Katrina. Talk about Social Security. Talk about offshore drilling. Talk about your summer gastax moratorium. Talk about waterboarding. Talk about the surge "winning the war"... it just doesn't stop.

Talk about schtick. Talk about vomiting on the American people!

Sprinkles, anyone?

[DASM]

Humour is better when it is about something unlikely to happen, or unexpected. This scenario is all too likely.

[kidshare]

You're obviously the expert on humor

[DASM]

More than you, apparently. An old guy pretending to fall asleep is not funny, just contrived.

[livesimply]

Self-depreciating jokes can be endearing, but what McCain doesn't seem to realize is that he keeps reinforcing his image of being too old.

[kidshare]

too old for what?

I'm proud of him...making it that far, hope I do

[soapington]

I'm not sure I understand you. You're proud of him for being seventy-one?

[lmab]

The SENIOR senator from Arizona is a riot! Anyone know any skin cancer humor?

[kidshare]

What's wrong, can't think of your own?

[pupbayer]

At least he has a sense of humor!

[lmab]

We know that.....rape jokes, bombing Iran and killing with cigarettes. The guy is a regular Don Rickles.

[JamesInDenver]

Bush has a sense of humor too, but lets set the bar a little higher this time.

[Cookie100]

Calling his wife a c88t is hilarious!

[CindyM2008]

The one about Che lsea C linton being ugly.... what a riot!!!!

[ejay579]

Wha Johnny Mac does not realize is that he is the joke.

[livesimply]

Exactly.

[Judy109]

Now that is funny

[kidshare]

Oooh more hatred

[NotMcCain]

He's always at his best on The Daily Show. Really, if I were John McCain, I'd have Jon Stewart do all my interviews.

Plus, Stewart--who isn't Republican-leaning by nature--treats McCain with awe and reverence, making him seem like someone special instead of a 71 year old Republican who is obviously mentally and physically passed the age when most of us have to RETIRE.

But it's Colbert's challenge to viewers to use the horrible speech in front of the green screen to "Make McCain interesting!" that's really been clever. (You can see the entries at Comedy Central--some very good ones, plus they DID make him seem interesting (at least for 20 or 30 highly edited seconds)

[frappe]

Mc-Cain appears to have fallen asleep while appearing on a national television show? Regardless of the lame attempt by Mc-Cain at frivolity and phony self-deprecation, it serves as just another metaphor that a Mc-Cain presidency would be the functional equivalent of a third B-ush term. After all, B-ush has been asleep at the wheel since day one. Our country is in the worst shape it has been in decades and we haven't seen the bottom to this tailspin yet.

[frappe]

Mc-Cain appears to have fallen asleep while appearing on a national television show? Regardless of the lame attempt by Mc-Cain at frivolity and phony self-deprecation, it serves as just another metaphor that a Mc-Cain presidency would be the functional equivalent of a third Bush term. After all, B-ush has been asleep at the wheel since day one. Our country is in the worst shape it has been in decades and we haven't seen the bottom to this tailspin yet.

[Gollum73]

McCain has a sense of humor. I like that. When was the last time Obama even tried to tell a joke? Maybe when he said "you're likable enough" to Hillary? He's busy trying to look like presidential, and when he tries to make a joke he fails miserably.

[Senella]

Obama jokes quite regularly. I know because I listen to his speeches. Did you not hear him make fun of his big ears?

[DASM]

McCain has shown, over & over, that his so-called sense of humor is sexist, violent, and war-oriented. Perhaps some of that might be amusing to a comedy club crowd, but it is anything but funny in a potential president. Only right-wingnuts find humor in killing, bombing, & rape. Oh, and in calling women b**ches, c*nts, etc. Ha ha. Yeah, sure, McCain's a riot.

[95flhtcu]

That was kinda funny.

[thefringecenter]

Yeah, a real hoot. If he acts like he is old we will think that he is not really old afterall. It just might work. I want someone who is young and acts old. Obama '08