… it’s desperate and scandal-ravaged Republican Frank Cotton!
I’m not making that terrific line up, folks. It was announced today that the tenacious governor will appear next week on the comedy show that has just exploded this season with political appearances. In a press statement released on Sunday, Cotton campaign manager Gary Orp referred to the candidate as “easily the funnest and funniest among the lot of them.”
But hear me out as I tell you why this is a dangerous move.
Cotton has been doing all he can to avoid mention of the situation involving his son. There is growing evidence that Calvin Cotton pilfered his dead wife from a cemetery and then made off with the body four years ago.
Think the comics at SNL will use restraint and ignore that? Me neither. It’s getting very close to Halloween, and if you can swipe a grisly plot like that from real world politics, that’s as tempting to a comedy team as aftershave is to an alcoholic.
According to the release: “Governor Cotton has always been a fan of SNL and is intimately familiar with their brand of comedy. Those of us who have worked with him for years know that he is up to the task. The millions of fans of the show might find themselves astounded by the depths of Frank Cotton’s talents.”
We already know his talent for evasion and the quickness of his anger. Let’s see how the good governor reacts when Tina Fey is carried before him in a grim portrayal of the dead and stolen Bethany Cotton.
