From NBC Chicago.
According to a source within Senator John McCain’s camp, McCain’s Nov. 1 appearance on “Saturday Night Live” was something he’d been hoping to do for a long time.
“He’s always been up for going on ‘SNL,’” said the source. “He’d been wanting to do it for a while, it’s just tough with the scheduling.”
Unlike Gov. Sarah Palin’s “SNL” appearance , McCain was very involved in the night’s sketches.
“He’s funny, a lot of people don’t realize that," the source said. “And he was totally up for anything. He can take a joke — actually the only jokes that can bother him sometimes are jokes about Sarah. He really defends her.”
That could, in part, explain what some described as “frosty” chemistry between Tina Fey and McCain.
“It seemed a little awkward,” said one person who saw McCain and Fey rehearse just before the live dress rehearsal, “but he really was up for anything, being as involved as the show wanted him to be. Everyone got along great.”
Certainly he was funny, and yeah, he has every right to defend her if he so chooses, but really, what the hell did he expect? It's SNL, and Fey's only on there right now to do her Palin parody. What did he think was going to happen? Obviously, things are going to be "frosty".
Personally, I bet he didn't like the little "I'm going rogue now; vote for me in 2012" bit.
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