-After key victories in Arizona and Georgia, many on the news
and social media gave a sort of credit
to deceased figures like Congressman John Lewis
and Senator John McCain.
Here to discuss this paranormal contribution to the election
is our friend and ghost enthusiast John Mulaney.
-Where were we? -Oh!
-Oh, I'm sorry. I startled you.
Would you like to pause? Do you need to cut camera?
-No. No, I'm okay. So, John, what was your reaction
to the various conversations about Lewis and McCain
having played a role in the election outcome?
-Well, as with many things I was psyched
and then I overthought it and I became annoyed,
and that's still where I'm at.
Can we show the video clips that I brought, please?
-The evidence among the deceased people
who had a real influence in this election
are John Lewis in Georgia, John McCain in Arizona.
-I felt like John Lewis was speaking to us
and he was doing his happy dance in heaven.
-I have had a vision of McCain up in heaven
smiling down at these results.
-And frankly, I think Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and John Lewis and John McCain
are looking down on us and smiling.
-So, John, your annoyance is?
-It's like, "Hey, America, do you believe in ghosts or not?"
You know, make up your minds.
A lot of times you hear people say,
"Oh, I felt like Pop was
Watching over me today when I hit that home run,"
or "Oh, I could feel Mama with us
when we bought the house today,"
or "Oh, look at that dead ghost kid in 'Three Men and a Baby.'"
But when you actually say,
"I believe in ghosts," people laugh at you
and they shouldn't laugh.
They should believe. -So you're saying ghosts
did play a role and the media
should lean more into it?
-I like how you phrase that, yes, yes.
McCain and Lewis straight up haunted this election,
but they were not the only ones.
The suburban mom voting bloc
was not the deciding factor in this election,
but rather angry middle-class ghosts
and ghouls who had maybe supported Trump in 2016,
maybe did not, but at this point said, "Look.
I'm a ghost. Boo.
I can't take four more years of this."
-Why would so many ghosts support Biden?
We know that many of the elderly went for Trump.
So, why would we not see a larger red wave
among the passed away?
-I like -- I like how you phrase that as well.
Well, Trump held rallies in many states as we know,
but what is now clear to me
is that Biden must have traveled to the underworld
across the River Styx,
charmed Hedra, the seven-headed dog
who guards the gates of hell,
and played his fife for Persephone
the queen of hell herself.
-So that whole time we thought
Joe Biden was just in his basement,
he was in a metaphoric basement?
-Hades, yes.
I think that's very clear from the election returns.
Believe.
But despite that, next week when it's all over
and no one cares about this election,
you'll see this honest discourse about ghosts disappear
from the media, and I'm sick of it.
Do you know how many people have seen a ghost?
I don't, but based on my own field work
I know, like, 70 people who have.
So I'm sure there's one seen every day.
And coverage of these hauntings shouldn't be something
that we only talk about every four years at election time.
-Time so your point is you believe in ghosts,
even though you haven't seen one but want to.
-I'm scared of it, but yes.
-And a lot of times people don't believe in ghosts
and now people are sort of waxing imaginatively
the John Lewis and John McCain's memories
affected their constituency
and they're going far with this idea
and saying it was them from the afterlife.
And right now, what you want
is paranormal consistency. -Paranormal consistency.
Yes. Thank you.
-Now Republicans say dead people voted in 2020,
but they mean living people
are using dead people's names in voter fraud.
I assume, based on what you've said,
you think that if a dead person, an actual dead person,
manages to vote on their own
it should count. -It should count, but don't go
patting voting ghosts on the back
because they didn't have to wait in long lines, you know?
They can go through walls and they can float
as well as other things you can do when you're a ghost.
-You know, I read once that if they concentrate very hard...
-Yes. -...they can kick a can...
-Yes, yes, yes. -...down a subway platform.
-Yes. You did not read that.
What you did was you saw that in the the movie "Ghost,"
which stars Patrick Swayze,
who has passed away,
and because of his "Dirty Dancing ties,"
he may have delivered that key Catskills bloc.
Now Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last words were
"My most fervent wish is that
I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
Trump shockingly did not honor that wish
and push through the appointment
of Amy Coney Barrett. -Amy Coney Island, yes.
-Her dying wish was rejected, and if ghosts are real,
you think she would have intervened.
-Oh! Oh, oh, on. No.
Your folly is not in your logic but in your theology, you see?
In Judaism, there is no defined afterlife.
So Ruth Bader Ghostburg
would therefore have to be what we call a Dybbuk,
which is a much more dangerous spirit
who can possess a human being and can terrorize the living.
I would keep an eye on people like Susie Essman
and see if they have lace collars all of a sudden.
-So what you're saying is Trump could have a Dybbuk on his hand?
-And not just one Dybbuk. -Hmm.
-I believe
another Jewish phantasm humiliated the Trump campaign
this week when Ed Koch -- thank you --
former mayor of New York
and a playful ghost like a Jewish Casper,
sent his former enemy, Rudy Giuliani,
to the Four Seasons Landscaping Company --
a prank that has dead Koch written all over it.
-But now here's my question.
Why would Giuliani trust the ghost Ed Koch,
AKA Dead Koch? -Ah, well the Dead Koch Dybbuk,
yes, probably took the form of a young blond reporter
from Eastern Europe.
As you know, Rudy cannot resist those.
Pretty embarrassing for Mr. "Bafungiuliani" --
the Italian silly ghost.
-Giuliani is not dead nor do I think that "Bafungiuliani"
is the Italian word for ghost.
-No, but it's a good name for Rudy.
-Yeah. John, thank you for being here.
-Or was I?
Cut to four. Cut the camera four.
Cut to four. I'll roll off. I'll just roll off the ground.
-Alright, we'll be right back with Dan Aykroyd.