Posted on 07/30/2017 6:34:27 PM PDT by raybbr
NEW HAVEN >> Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota tried to be serious when he spoke Sunday at the Shubert Theatre about topics such as health care, but as a former comedian, he couldn’t stop himself from cracking jokes and drawing belly laughs from the partisan crowd.
Franken, who is touring to support his book, the satirically titled “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate,” attracted several thousand left-leaning people on a summer afternoon. The event was sponsored by R.J. Julia Booksellers of Madison.
During the hour-long, on-stage conversation with Colin McEnroe, who hosts a talk show on WNPR Connecticut Public Radio, Franken said he is sometimes frustrated by the need to be taken seriously by colleagues and the public. That means not telling a lot of jokes.
He recalled his first U.S. Senate campaign in 2008 against Republican Norm Coleman, which Franken eventually won by only 312 votes after a lengthy recount. Coleman’s campaign had dredged up Franken’s sexual comments in a January 2000 Playboy parody by airing an ad that called him “depraved.”
“My mother-in-law cried when she saw that ad,” Franken said, “So when I got into office I decided not to be funny at all.”
But still he couldn’t help himself; he had been a successful writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live” and spent more than 30 years in the comedy business.
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Oh, the irony. It's completely lost on these brainwashed fools.
... said the man who really didn’t win his election.
“””””Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota “”””””
He is a New Yorker.
Obamacare was nothing but lies from beginning to end.
This is the first thing he’s ever said that actually made me laugh.
Franken suffers from terminal political flatulence.
Al should go to Cuba for his health care. Or just move there and become s sheep to be sheared by the Castros.
Said the coke head married to a drunk.
Al Franken is what is referred to as a professional jerk. He’s no amateur, he is quite adept at jerk-i-ness. Jerk.
Al, sounds like you are doing a whole lot of projection.
The Stool-Pigeon speaks.
A diaper-clad former SNL comic does the Senate on stolen votes found in the trunk of a car, and we’re supposed to think of him as truthful? Sage? Witty? Classy? LEGAL?
It's what they said about Bush, too.
"...you can keep your doctor..."
"...keep your plan..."
"...go down by $2,500..."
"...I did not have..."
Down the Democrat memory hole. Bush is a liar. Trump is a liar. Read my lips...
-PJ
Or as he is called in Hollywood....Baggage Handler #2.
Says the man who’s stolen Senate seat passed the lie that was Obamacare.
To Socialist scum like Franken...Anything that promotes Socialism is the truth and anything that goes against Socialisjm is a lie.
Wow, democrats never fail to project what they constantly do on to their opponents. I think it’s on the first page of the liberal playbook. Probably in the first paragraph.
If Franken had not stolen Minnesota, there would be no Obozo care.
Well said and so true.
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