Trivia

Tina Fey was one of the five uncredited writers who did a re-write on the screenplay.

Chris Rock got the idea for this story from the 1984 Walter Mondale/Geraldine A. Ferraro ticket, in which the Democrats thought that since they had no chance of winning against Ronald Reagan/George Bush, they might as well make a historic first so they can win support for the next election. So they ran Ferraro as the first ever woman vice president candidate for their party (and lost).

During the Chicago speech a man stands up and yells out " Get your hand out of my pocket" in homage to Malcolm X where the same thing happened before he was assassinated.

Chris Rock admitted that he didn't know the electric slide and was taught on the set of the movie.

Part of the presidential debate is a verbatim repeat of Monty Python's Argument Sketch from The Money Programme (1972).

Adam Sandler: the scream that was used after Mays Gilliam says, "Security!"