My funny senator

The performance of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) at the National Press Club Foundation dinner this week is getting plenty of headlines in nerdy political circles. For the uninitiated, the premise is that this annual event always features comedic performances from one Democrat and one Republican member of Congress. Usually these people aren’t funny. This year, Klobuchar was named the Democrat’s sacrificial comedy lamb, but shocked the world by writing half her own jokes and actually being funny. Here’s the transcript from a Chicago Sun Times reporter who was there. MinnPost also has it and City Pages has a link over to the C-SPAN website where you can see the video. Funny? Yes, I think so. And she mentioned the Iron Range so she gets on the blog today.

Meantime, former comedian Al Franken is waiting to become Minnesota’s other senator. People attack him for making jokes so today in an interview he says:

Franken said he’s no longer much interested in being viewed as a comic. “This is a deadly serious job, it really is,” he said.

Asked how he might satirize the election limbo he’s now trapped in, Franken said: “There’s nothing funny about what’s going on now.”

What a world, what a world, what a world!

Comments

  1. It greatly saddens me to see Franken become less funny. He used to be the best political satirist in the country, because he was funny and correct (“Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”, “Why Not Me?”). But with each book, he became more serious and less funny, to the point where I couldn’t even finish “The Truth (with jokes)” because it just wasn’t funny or interesting at all.

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