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November 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 am

Video: SNL John McCain with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin Saturday Night Live Skit 11-1-08

Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain made an appearance alongside Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live on November 1, 2008. McCain also appeared on Weekend Update. Watch both videos here.

In the cold open skit McCain and “Palin” appeared together on QVC where McCain made a campaign pitch while selling such items as “pork” knives, Sarah Palin’s “Ayers fresheners,” a set of Joe action figures (from Joe Six Pack to Joe the Plumber to Joe Biden) and “McCain Fine Gold” (“It commemorates the McCain-Feingold Act and also looks good with evening wear”) with the help of his wife Cindy McCain, making a cameo appearance.

The QVC appearance was McCain’s response to Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama’s real life purchase of a 30 minute infomercial on seven television networks. (See: Video & Photos: Barack Obama Infomercial Video 10-29-08 [Obama 30 Minute Ad]) “We, however, can only afford QVC,” McCain said.

“These campaigns sure are expensive,” Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin chimed in, drawing attention with a hand gesture to her chic black suit, referencing the Republican National Committee spending $150,000 for clothing for Palin and her family.

Fey’s Palin later went to one side of the stage and whispered that she was “going rogue” as she hawked “Palin 2012″ T-shirts. “Just try and wait until after Tuesday to wear ‘em, OK?” she said. “Because I am not going anywhere, and I’m certainly not going back to Alaska. If I’m not going to the White House, I’m either running in four years, or I’m going to be a white Oprah.”

In the Weekend Update appearance, McCain, seated at the anchor desk, skewered pundits who have criticized him for changing his campaign strategies. “I’m also considering a few radical last minute strategies,” he said, and proceeded to list the Reverse Maverick, and the Double Maverick (“that’s where I go totally beserk or just freak everybody out.”) or the Charleston, which would mean he would campaign only in Charleston, South Carolina.

He also listed the “Sad Grandpa” saying “That’s where I get on TV and go, ‘C’mon, Obama is going to have plenty of chances to be president. It’s my turn! Vote for me!”

This was McCain’s third appearance on Saturday Night Live. He appeared on the program in May 2008, telling viewers they needed a president who is “very, very, very old” and in 2002 when he “sang” a medley of Barbra Streisand songs.

To see the full transcript: A final campaign swing for John McCain on ‘Saturday Night Live’

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