John McCain’s death has sparked both mournful remembrances and debates over his legacy, most given in the solemn tone befitting discussions of the death of a war hero and Senate veteran, a man who will also become the 31st person in American history to receive the honor of lying in state at the Capitol. But NBC managed to goof its announcement of McCain’s death in a big way, cutting from the report of the Senator’s passing to a rerun of an America’s Got Talent episode featuring a bizarre variety act starring two men in dolphin masks. The act featured was Japanese comedy duo Yumbo Dump, husky guys whose talent appears to be making noises with their bellies. In case you were wondering what passes for American talent on TV these days, the performance interrupted by the McCain news report was from the show’s quarterfinals. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Yeah well this is the worst case scenario possible for a dead roll, sometimes it works out, sometimes you wind up with this. — Mac Wilson (@cinatyte) August 26, 2018 This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>Collectively, the Internet wondered what the gods of media broadcasting had just subjected them to. Some criticized NBC’s timing and suggested that whoever was in charge of the programming maybe shouldn’t be in charge of programming ever again. NBC did not immediately return a call seeking comment.<doc-sep>American TV channel NBC is facing criticism after it followed the announcement of John McCain’s death by returning immediately to a talent show featuring two topless men dancing while wearing dolphin masks. The juxtaposition was widely described as inappropriate and insensitive. The station interrupted its regular programming to deliver the breaking news that the Arizona senator had died at the age of 81, following his decision to discontinue treatment for a brain tumour. Recommended McCain was a maverick whose last political battle was reining in Trump But after presenter Richard Lui had delivered the report – which featured early tributes to the former presidential candidate and Vietnam war hero – the channel cut straight back to what had previously been broadcasting. This meant viewers saw a repeat of an America's Got Talent episode, featuring shirtless duo Yumbo Dump performing what they called a dolphin dance. There were no intervening black out or adverts between the two segments. Social media users reacted with astonishment and some fury. “This was a huge mistake,” wrote one Twitter user. “I get the sense that whoever made that decision won’t be making many more in the future.” “Probably the most jarring experience of my life,” noted another. John McCain: US Senator in pictures Show all 40 1 /40 John McCain: US Senator in pictures John McCain: US Senator in pictures John McCain - 2000 John McCain waves to crowds at The University of Portland in Oregon. McCain was campaigning for Republican nominee George W. Bush AFP/Getty John McCain: US Senator in pictures John McCain - 1967 Senator John Mccain In A Hanoi Hospital During The Vietnam War November, 1967 Getty John McCain: US Senator in pictures John McCain - 1993 John McCain, a former POW, looks at a display of personal belongings of American POWs at the joint POW/MIA archives center in the Hanoi Army Museum AFP/Getty John McCain: US Senator in pictures John McCain - 1999 Republican Senator John McCain announces his official bid for the 2000 White House in Nashua, New Hampshire. 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Roll United States Courthouse Bill into law in the Oval Office of the White House as Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, Senator John McCain, Chief of Staff to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Pia Carusone, Rep. Ed Pastor, and Rep. Trent Franks look on. President Obama signed the bill to name a new federal courthouse in Yuma, Arizona, after federal Judge John M. Roll, who was gunned down during the shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona Getty John McCain: US Senator in pictures John McCain - 2012 Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney talks with former presidential nominee US Sen. John McCain on Romney's campaign bus with Press Secretary Andrea Saul in between events near Manchester, New Hampshire. 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John McCain, who shed a playboy image in his youth to become a fighter pilot, revered prisoner of war and both an independent voice in the Republican Party and its 2008 presidential nominee, died on Saturday, little more than a year after he was told he had brain cancer. He was 81. McCain’s office said in a statement that McCain died at 4:28 p.m. He announced on July 19, 2017, that he had been diagnosed with a glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor. On Friday, his family announced that he was discontinuing treatment. "With the senator when he passed were his wife, Cindy, and their family. At his death, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 60 years," McCain's office said in the statement. His daughter, Meghan McCain, said in a statement, "I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning." "All that I am is thanks to him. Now that he is gone, the task of my lifetime is to live up to his example, his expectations, and his love,” she said. I love you forever - my beloved father @SenJohnMcCain pic.twitter.com/Y50tVQvlVe — Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 26, 2018 Cindy McCain tweeted: “My heart is broken. I am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. He passed the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved.” She said he died in "the place he loved best." In his 36 years in Congress, McCain became one of the country's most respected and influential politicians, challenging his fellow lawmakers to reach across the aisle for the good of the country, and often sparring with reporters with a biting if self-deprecating wit. On a variety of issues — torture, immigration, campaign finance, the Iraq War — McCain was often known as the moral center of the Senate and of the Republican Party. Last year, in his last act of defiance, McCain returned to the Capitol less than a week after his cancer was diagnosed to cast his vote on the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act — the biggest legislative achievement of President Barack Obama, the man who defeated him in the 2008 election. McCain first voted in favor of debating the bill, giving his fellow Republicans hope that their long-sought goal of repealing Obamacare was in sight. McCain then dashed those hopes by casting the decisive vote against repeal. Before the vote, McCain denounced the rise of partisanship in a heartfelt speech from the Senate floor on July 25, 2017. "Why don’t we try the old way of legislating in the Senate, the way our rules and customs encourage us to act?" McCain said. "Merely preventing your political opponents from doing what they want isn’t the most inspiring work." But in recent months, the man who had been a mainstay on Capitol Hill for more than three decades was noticeably absent. He missed a White House ceremony on Dec. 12 in which President Donald Trump signed the annual defense bill into law — one of McCain's signature achievements. A statement issued the following day by the senator's office said he was at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland receiving treatment for the "normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy" and looked forward to returning to work as soon as possible. John McCain was a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order. He was a public servant in the finest traditions of our country. President George W. Bush McCain's life was punctuated by wild highs and lows, from the horrific conditions he endured for nearly 2,000 days as a prisoner of war to subsequent professional successes that brought him to the forefront of American politics. Over the course of his career he rallied against pork-barrel spending and went against his own party's president, George W. Bush, on strategy for the Iraq war. He earned a reputation as a party maverick by advocating campaign finance reform, lending his name to the bipartisan McCain-Feingold Act of 2002, and supporting overhauling the nation's immigration system over the years Bush said in a statement Saturday: "Some lives are so vivid, it is difficult to imagine them ended. Some voices are so vibrant, it is hard to think of them stilled. John McCain was a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order.