In just over two weeks, one of the two men vying for our nation's highest office will be out of a job. One will get ready to move into the White House, and one will head home — or to one of his seven homes. Sure, the loser will still have a gig in the Senate, but with this year’s presidential campaign winding down, could either John McCain or Barack Obama — who hoisted verbal attacks at each other during the third and final debate Wednesday night — secure future work on the stand-up circuit? Last night, both candidates attended the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where they swapped punch lines about themselves and each other.
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Obama — who has appeared on "Saturday Night Live" since announcing his candidacy — joked that he loves the Waldorf because "from the doorstep, you can see the Russian Tea Room" — an obvious jab at McCain's running mate, Governor Sarah Palin. He said he never knew the dinner's namesake, the former four-time governor of New York who died in 1944, "but from everything that Senator McCain has told me, the two of them had a great time together before Prohibition."
McCain, who specializes in self-deprecating humor (he has, in the past, made cracks about his own appearance, saying that he looks like the Frankenstein monster), announced that he'd fired his entire staff and that "all of their positions will now be held by a man named Joe the Plumber." McCain joked that Oprah once referred to Obama as "The One," while he just refers to the Illinois senator as "That One," and added that Obama has his own pet name for McCain: "George Bush."
McCain also appeared on last night's episode of "The Late Show With David Letterman," after canceling on him a few weeks ago. He quipped that now is not the time to raise taxes, but he would raise Letterman's. "I guarantee you, if I become president, I'll do it," he said. "First executive order." Also on Thursday, Obama's running mate, Senator Joe Biden, appeared on NBC's "Tonight Show" and talked about McCain's age. Biden, 65, said McCain (who, at 72, would be the oldest first-term American president) was "the only guy older than me."
Now there's word that Palin will appear this weekend on "SNL," where Tina Fey's been doing an impeccable and not-at-all-flattering impression of her. There's no word yet on what Palin's appearance will entail, but it's sure to be hilarious, regardless of the material.
Who would get your vote if this year's election were based purely on who had the best sense of humor? Let us know in the comments section below.
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