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July 19, 2008 2:21 PM

ABC News' Jennifer Duck reports: Even New York City traffic couldn’t stop John McCain from appearing on stage for the big event on Friday, "Late Night With Conan O’Brien."

"Normally on Friday we would tape our show at 4:30, but to accommodate Sen. John McCain we agreed to tape the show at 5:30. Sen. McCain wasn't available at 4:30 because that's when he eats dinner," O’Brien joked with the audience at the beginning of the taping.

McCain’s plane arrived later than expected due to congestion in the skies, but with New York’s Lincoln Tunnel shut down and a high-speed police motorcade leading the way, Sen. McCain made it from Newark Airport to the NBC studios in record time.

"You made it in remarkably just in time," O’Brien jabbed sarcastically at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. "They couldn't tell at home because, you know, because it all gets pulled up in editing, but I shaved twice."

McCain shot back with a smile, "I had dinner and a nap."

When O’Brien brought up the senator’s age, 71-year-old McCain slowly slumped over the side of his chair and pretended to take a nap. "Wake up!" O’Brien said as he put a hand on the Senator’s shoulder and poked at his face. “You just gave a lot of people a scare.”

Last time McCain appeared on “Late Night” he gave O’Brien his take on the role of a vice president. O’Brien referred back to the appearance quoting McCain. "You said and I quote, ''The vice president only has two duties. One is to break a tie vote in the United States Senate. The other duty is to inquire daily as to the health of the president.'"

McCain responded, "And that job will be very, very important with my vice president!"

O’Brien then rolled full-screen pictures of McCain’s vice presidential hopefuls next to candid shots of celebrities who would play them in a made-for-TV movie.

"I don't know if you're aware of this -- NBC, desperate for programming, has put a made-for-TV movie into the works about Sen. McCain's choice for the vice president. I don't know if you've seen the casting yet, but I'd like to share it with you right now," Conan said as the side-by-side pictures flashed on screen.

The cast of characters O’Brien chose for the pretend movie made McCain chuckle and slap his knee.

Characters included Gov. Charlie Crist played by Bob Barker; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played by Snoop Dogg; Mitt Romney played by "any local weather man"; Joe Lieberman played by a bassett hound; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal played by Kumar from the "Harold & Kumar" movies; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee played by Gomer Pyle; and national co-chair of the McCain Campaign Meg Whitman played by Tom Petty. (fast forward to the end of the 2nd segment).

You can fast forward to the end of the second segment to watch the potential vice president candidates sketch.

July 19, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan | Permalink | User Comments (29)

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Sense of humor and quick wit
are something spontaneous.
They are situational,
unscripted, unexpected
and well-timed.

They are not about saying and
doing things in a skit on SNL
or other shows. Or acting
senile or doing geriatric
jokes on late night talk shows.

Posted by: anon | Jul 20, 2008 11:56:36 AM

Among McCain's disabilities,
the lack of a sense of humor
is one of the prominent ones.

Posted by: anon | Jul 20, 2008 12:05:53 PM

Obama can't joke about himself because all of his lines have to be etched in stone tablets by lightening bolts. The guy suffers from a 'God Complex' -an idea he got from all his 'old media' groupies.

Posted by: Wm Babbington | Jul 20, 2008 1:28:01 PM

McCain was not named songbird by his fellow POWS for no reason. The enemy even erected a statue of their hero.

Posted by: enduser | Jul 20, 2008 1:41:20 PM

Even if I don't support his presidency, I have to give McCain credit for being funny. Of course, I think I liked the 'cigarettes for Iran' thing more than the media did.

Posted by: Novae | Jul 21, 2008 2:38:33 AM

McCain was eating the Blue Bird special at 4:30pm and couldn't be disturbed. Senior citizen McCain will be falling asleep in the Oval office while we bleed money in Iraq and the economy continues down the tubes, more Americans lose their jobs and the dollar is replaced with the Chinese yuan

Posted by: Bob | Jul 21, 2008 8:58:49 AM

GO JOHN. SENATOR OBAMA, FOR ALL HIS GRAND STANDING, SPEECHES AND FLIP FLOPPING CAN NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO YOUR EXPERIENCE, PATRIOTISM, SERVICE TO AMERICA AND TRUTHFULLNESS. COME NOVEMBER SENATOR OBAMA WILL JOIN THE RANKS OF HILARY AS AN "ALSO RAN".

YOU MAY WANT TO CONSIDER USING HILARYS' COMMERCIALS THAT SHE RAN DURING THE PRIMARIES...HOW SWEET THAT WOULD BE.

Posted by: BOO HOO | Jul 21, 2008 11:18:45 AM

McCain is a good sport. Despite all the media focus and praise on Obama, I think McCain is standing up like a true trooper. I think that it's really very sad that so many are so quick to criticize him rather than listening with an open mind.

Posted by: Missy M | Jul 21, 2008 12:50:48 PM

McBUSH is standing up like a true trooper....LOL...That is his carboard cutout dummy you see....McBUSH is taking a nap..

Posted by: Repubsout | Jul 21, 2008 1:37:45 PM

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