Posted on 08/07/2017 2:54:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The senator’s new book does contain some wit — when he quotes Lindsey Graham.
Al Franken was more prepared than you might think to run successfully for the U.S. Senate in 2008. Being a senator is serious business, and Franken had just spent 35 years not being funny. The challenge he faced was this: After years of trying to be funny and failing, could he at long last try not to be funny, and succeed?
On the strength of Al Franken: Giant of the Senate, Franken is not-funnier than ever. A book written by a sitting senator who is actually a professional writer, and not only a professional writer but a professional comedy writer, is a delectable prospect. The pickings must be so easy in the Capitol you’d think that for a former Saturday Night Live comic to write about it would be like LeBron James going one-on-one with Angela Lansbury. Yet when the Frankenhumor goes on a rampage, here is what happens:
Throughout this volume, whenever you see a very mild oath like “Fiddlesticks!” (or some gentle name-calling like “numbskull” or “dimwit” . . .) followed by the letters “USS” in superscript, that means I’ve replaced something far more plainspoken with a less offensive phrase or expression. The “USS” stands for United States Senate, the body in which I now serve. I feel I have a duty to both my colleagues and my constituents to make at least a token effort to preserve its dignity and decorum. I wish I could say the same for that dunderhead USS Ted Cruz.
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The man is not the least bit funny, but he is a disgusting pervert(Note picture of him wearing a diaper) and pig!
Franken stole his original election by stealing votes. What an un-American weasel.
Pus he is a New Yorker, not from Minnesota.
I know that you meant “Plus” he is a New Yorker, but “Pus he is a New Yorker” fits Franken nicely! :-)
Born in New York, but went to high school in Minnesota. Left Minnesota right after high school and had not lived there for nearly 40 years when elected to the US Senate.
Al has never been funny!
The funniest thing I’ve heard from Senator Smalley’s mouth recently is when he went on record as saying the Vikings would beat the Patriots in Super Bowl 52.
Suggesting that the Vikings would make the NFC playoffs, let alone make it to the Super Bowl, is funnier than anything that was written for him on SNL.
I think Franken is a creep, but I thought Stuart Smalley was funny, as well as his spoof as a “doctor” when Reagan had prostate surgery.
Yes, he was born in New York. Came here during his school years. Left as soon as he graduated in 1969. Never came back....until he pretended to be a Minnesotan.
He went to the same high school my son did. Lived in the next burb over. Incredible phony.
I still refer to him by his Hollywood name....Baggage handler #2.
Al Franken is to humor what Jeffrey Dahmer was to fine dining.
Franken and Davis did a terrific parody of Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon doing “Karnac the Magnificent” during the hostage crisis. Davis got all the punchlines dressed up in a turban and speaking like the Ayatollah while cracking jokes at the Iranian spokespeople. Here was an example:
Khomeini: (holds envelope up to his forehead) Ghotbzadeh!
Franken as McMahon: Ghotbzadeh!
Khomeini: (opens envelope and reads card) What do you do if you can’t get women by night?
The SNL crowd loudly booed this or sat in stunned silence.
HAHAHAHA! Stop!!! Yer killin' me! HOHOHOHOH! My sides are achin'!
NOT ...
Franken is a scummy creep.
Franken and Letterman were the creepiest and unfunny comedians I have ever seen.
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