Three funny highlights from TV Guide’s story on the candidates and their favorite television shows:

John Edwards is a fan of Boston Legal, and tells TV Guide that his viewing guilty pleasure is “Fred Thompson on Law & Order.” John McCain lists Prison Break among his favorite TV shows “because as a fellow prisoner, I always dreamed and plotted how I would break out of the Hanoi Hilton,” he tells TV Guide. Mitt Romney tells TV Guide he is a fan of Lost because it has “a very captivating plot, and if you live a busy life, escape is always welcome.”

Wouldn’t John Edwards make a great guest star on Law & Order? He could play one of the smooth-talking defense counsels opposing Jack McCoy, or whoever the new lead Assistant District Attorney is. Heck, bring the Arthur Branch character back and let the two of them have a brusque exchange in a courthouse hallway.

McCain didn’t pick 24, even after his (six-second) cameo?