Of course, I wouldn't know; I don't watch the show much anymore because I think it has fallen very far from its original cutting-edge humor and political wit. It is now part of the culture, and what made SNL great when it began was that it was outside the culture.
"Live from Washington, it’s a milder Al Franken; Senator learning to unbarb his wit" by Jason Horowitz, Washington Post | March 21, 2010
WASHINGTON — After arriving in the Senate in July after a bitterly contested recount, Al Franken, the former “Saturday Night Live’’ satirist immediately set out to prove that he was no court jester. He pursued Hillary Rodham Clinton’s expectations-defying model of bipartisan workhorse and convincingly assumed the role of diligent policy wonk.
But by so effectively suppressing the punch lines, Franken exposed an irascible, sometimes nasty side of his personality. In a chamber where good will helps a freshman rack up legislative achievements, that can be just as damaging.
Well.... must be a hereditary trait or something.
Franken’s naked sarcasm, short fuse, and sense of showmanship ran amok, leading to public blowups with Republicans, private grievances among Democrats, and attacks on senior Obama administration officials.
In other words, he thought he was representing the people who elected him.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
Hey, that's the first time SNL drew a laugh from me in a while.
Several people at a private meeting last month said they heard Franken tell White House senior adviser David Axelrod that the president should apologize for his stupid campaign promise to televise health care discussions.
Now some colleagues and Senate analysts are noticing flashes of the old Franken humor as the Democratic junior senator from Minnesota seeks to find the appropriate balance between humorist and humorless scold....
He will never be a Wellstone.
In July, his Service Dogs for Veterans Act passed with bipartisan support. He has cosponsored proposed legislation with Senator Orrin Hatch to recruit better principals for troubled schools; with Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, to end the rape-kit backlog; and with Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, to push a diabetes prevention act....
I don't want to say the accomplishments are nothing, but they are next to considering the big things we wanted.
Yeah, Al looks absent on the single-payer health plan and the ending of the wars.
Strange that the MSM article didn't mention the flap with Lieberman.
Ha-ha-ha!
What do you know, they left me laughing.
