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One of their favorite sketches of mine was also one of their longest. They played political opponents in alternating TV commercials. Tom played a (presumably Republican) Senator named Winfield Adcock, in a gray three-piece suit. Al played "Pete Tagliani", his "working-man" Democratic challenger, usually with rolled-up shirtsleeves as I recall. His tagline was "So vote for me, Pete Tagliani. You'll be glad you did."
The ads escalated hilariously, with photos of the candidates with prostitutes, going on drinking binges, making homosexual advances in men's rooms, etc. God, it was funny. I wish it was available on YouTube. It made almost everything produced in the last ten years of SNL look like unfunny crap - which, of course, it is.
