--- title: Conan O'Brien: Watch Who He Would Cast in a Movie About 2016 description: Here's who Conan thinks should play each candidate in a movie about the 2016 election. Hint: Late 90's Justin Timberlake plays Rand Paul. canonical: https://time.com/3850069/conan-obrien-presidential-race/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-07T11:59:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:31.253Z og:title: Here's Who Conan O'Brien Would Cast in a Movie About the 2016 Candidates og:description: Ted Cruz gets Kevin from The Office, and Bernie Sanders just gets a bowl of coleslaw og:url: https://time.com/3850069/conan-obrien-presidential-race/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Who Conan O'Brien Would Cast in a Movie About the 2016 Candidates twitter:description: Ted Cruz gets Kevin from The Office, and Bernie Sanders just gets a bowl of coleslaw twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Who Conan O'Brien Would Cast in a Movie About the 2016 Candidates  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 7, 2015 11:59 AM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 7, 2015 11:59 AM UTC Since there are about 850 candidates running for the Republican nomination, according to Conan O’Brien, it’s about time to start casting a made-for-TV movie about the election. And Conan has some very specific ideas about who should play each character. Hillary Clinton will be played by David Spade and Chris Christie by Mama June from Honey Boo Boo. Naturally. But then Carly Fiorina will be played by lime cat? And Bernie Sanders by a bowl of coleslaw? Conan’s personal favorite seems to be Ted Cruz being played by Kevin from _T_ _he Office._ Watch the clip and the devastating side-by-side images, and see what you think. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3850069/conan-obrien-presidential-race/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3850069/conan-obrien-presidential-race/"},"headline":"Here's Who Conan O'Brien Would Cast in a Movie About the 2016 Candidates","datePublished":"2015-05-07T11:59:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:31.253Z","description":"Ted Cruz gets Kevin from The Office, and Bernie Sanders just gets a bowl of coleslaw","url":"https://time.com/3850069/conan-obrien-presidential-race/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3850069/conan-obrien-presidential-race/","name":"Here's Who Conan O'Brien Would Cast in a Movie About the 2016 Candidates"}}]}] ```