The Crazy McCain Lady on ‘SNL’: ‘Mmm Ummm Ahhh Hobama?’

By Kyle Buchanan on October 17, 2008 at 6:55 PM

Saturday Night Live just aired its second Thursday political special, and it was a marked improvement on last week’s middling debut — why, even the presidential debate skit was sort of funny! For our money, though, the extended Weekend Update was the show’s crown jewel, and that segment’s MVP was Kristen Wiig as the confused Republican who notoriously asserted that Obama was an Arab at a recent rally. Though hilarious enough on its own, Wiig’s halting impression also reminded us of Chester from Sifl & Olly, and that’s never a bad thing. The entire segment, after the jump:

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