He needs an original idea, too. Seriously. Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci) did this about twenty-five years ago; wrote goofy letters to all sorts of public figures, and then published the letters and their replies in a book. I remember that it was pretty funny too, unlike Al Franken...That was The Lazlo Letters, right? A lot of people have done the same thing and published the results over the intervening years; there's even a Freeper who has a website devoted to his own Lazlo-like correspondence with various companies. But nobody's ever bested Novello, I don't think.
Thanks; I could NOT remember the name of that book.