Comedian and Future Senator Al Franken With a Hilarious Performance at the 1996 WHCP

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  • @arielporte4149
    @arielporte4149 Год назад +250

    Oh how I wish Al was still our representative....please Al run again...we miss you and we NEED YOU !!!!!

    • @ericwahlund6968
      @ericwahlund6968 Год назад +10

      I agree

    • @roseannkraynak-jf7xr
      @roseannkraynak-jf7xr Год назад +17

      I live in PA & I wish he was Minnesota’s senator, too! He was an incredibly smart & efficient Senator unlike dimbulbs like Lindsey Graham & Ron Johnson who are unscrupulous pinheads.

    • @dolliscrawford280
      @dolliscrawford280 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@roseannkraynak-jf7xr The best thing I liked about AL was his efforts to eliminate the ability of people to sign away their rights to the courts by Arbitration only agreements.

    • @9275633
      @9275633 5 месяцев назад +5

      Please run for office again
      No one but gillebrandt cares about an ancient photo when u we’re a court jester kid
      We need u!!!!

    • @debbiemolnar4835
      @debbiemolnar4835 4 месяца назад

      Saturday night live

  • @linshanhsiang
    @linshanhsiang Год назад +54

    I've been watching various versions of these dinner speakers and Al Franken has them beaten all hollow!

    • @donnaniemi
      @donnaniemi 7 месяцев назад +1

      Me too and I couldn't agree more

    • @DrainItNow
      @DrainItNow 6 месяцев назад +2

      Except Stephen Colbert's roast of W!

  • @gingergrant6759
    @gingergrant6759 Год назад +528

    Reminds me of how much I'm still mad at Kristen gillibrand for taking away a decent Democrat senator

    • @LeeMaiden
      @LeeMaiden Год назад +73

      Kristen has proven she is someone that needs to be kicked to the curb, Al Franken needs to step back in, what he did was actually a nothing, a picture of someone about to do something wrong, but he didn't do anything in reality. Al needs to come back, his honesty and character, are missed in the Senate.

    • @cynthiarowley719
      @cynthiarowley719 Год назад +12

      Very glad he's not gone

    • @mikelemmon888
      @mikelemmon888 Год назад

      I hate her so much but Al was an idiot to resign.

    • @Seilolo
      @Seilolo Год назад +40

      SAME!!!!!! He shouldn’t have been ousted.

    • @janineharkins3513
      @janineharkins3513 Год назад +39

      Maybe the most shameful bit of that chapter was that Al was actually there to fight for the very basic rights of all Minnesotans in an occasionally humorous, but always humble, earnest and honest way. No dirty tricks or dark money, eyes never focused on what special perks or more prestigious positions his senatorship could garner him....but to be fair, the GOP had Roy Moore, so...

  • @susie6319
    @susie6319 Год назад +86

    Al Franken is a natural born comedian however he cared for his constituents in the winter In Minnesota he drove to visit a lady in the hospital who just had a cancerous tumor removed now we need more senators with that kind of heart's ❤❤❤

    • @neilturetsky6038
      @neilturetsky6038 2 месяца назад +2

      Best senator ever, love him. Never forgive Gililand for getting him thrown out for the silliest least significant prank ever

  • @craighunt6098
    @craighunt6098 Год назад +50

    Thanks Mr. Franken for being so prophetic about one the OG's and megaphones of modern MAGA intolerance--ie Rush Limbaugh and his impact on US politics...man 1996--only 27 years ago! And I loved the Slow Army of Retirees---now that I am one now, I am a "fast walker" fortunately and a very infrequent visitor to hospitals at age 68---same with my 68 year old wife!

  • @lorimentzer5866
    @lorimentzer5866 6 месяцев назад +38

    Come back Al Franken, you should have never resigned.

    • @sealyoness
      @sealyoness 2 месяца назад

      The clipped video showed a bunch of ISO entertainers clowning around, admittedly drinking on the transport. The woman who accused him of groping her or whatever was filmed making a young military escort turn red around his ears as she rubbed herself (clothed) all over him. Who sexually exploited whom? Al and his wife are still married, I believe. I've long forgotten who his accuser was.

    • @otthoheldring
      @otthoheldring Месяц назад

      Why did he cave so fast?

  • @beenaplumber8379
    @beenaplumber8379 Год назад +78

    I'm a liberal AND a Bob Dole fan. Those jokes with the Dutch guy made my eyes water!!!

  • @philipburton9518
    @philipburton9518 Год назад +93

    In 1996, how could we see that a call for civility would become an insane food fight of lies and desception by 2020? Franken is genius. I'd love to return him to DC.

    • @lindamullins1446
      @lindamullins1446 11 месяцев назад +5

      Who would think after Obama and his lovely family common sense and hard work and a good vp like Biden
      The people would put in trump
      Then voted him out
      Then Biden in 2020
      Has done good work
      And some people want trump again in 2024
      After such a horrible job with covid and 8 trillion deficit after his tax cuts for the very very rich
      Half of our deficit is Trump's doing and he added more debt then almost all presidents in history added together.
      Vote Blue
      For Truth & Democracy
      💙😎💙

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 3 месяца назад

      If Franken is a genius, Camela Harrys must be Einstein.

    • @jadedbrad
      @jadedbrad 2 месяца назад

      Bob Woodward says "falsehood" rather than lie because we don't know if therewas intent to tell the falsehood. But if you don't know that what you are saying is false, that makes you a dimwit.

    • @225marklin3
      @225marklin3 8 дней назад

      2024

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 6 месяцев назад +46

    This man SHOULD BE president now! So many other Republicans have done far worse and just denied their actions. He apologized and showed remorse. I would still vote for him!

    • @bananaramadingdong
      @bananaramadingdong 5 месяцев назад +5

      He shaped 90s humour, he acquitted himself admirably as a senator - the last thing this man deserves is a 4-year sentence in DC, herding angry cats.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 3 месяца назад

      He's a clown and a democrat. We've to too many of those already.

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 Год назад +70

    Fun Fact, this was the same night Franken almost got into a fist fight with Sean Hannity.

    • @pauldurand4780
      @pauldurand4780 Год назад +1

      Hannity needs at least a punch in the mouth..And I'm among other networks a fox watcher..

    • @Lisa-ik3wt
      @Lisa-ik3wt Год назад +3

      I wonder if he started lying liars directly after that.😊

    • @J.M.-nb4gw
      @J.M.-nb4gw Год назад +11

      Really I never heard of that? Al Franken was a good HS wrestler and would probably kick little Sean's butt!

    • @mxdavis
      @mxdavis Год назад +4

      What stones he had to deliver these stinging rebukes. Brilliant!

    • @lornahuddleston1453
      @lornahuddleston1453 Год назад

      ​@@Lisa-ik3wt😂🤣

  • @granthurlburt4062
    @granthurlburt4062 Год назад +97

    A brilliant and funny and honest and sincere and a great senator

  • @suemick8709
    @suemick8709 Год назад +45

    At 34:12 Clarence and Ginni Thomas? It's pretty unnerving to watch this in the present but Franken was hilarious and it was even funnier to witness all the seat squirming.

    • @Dead8Phish
      @Dead8Phish Год назад +4

      I think that was Tipper Gore, not Ginny...

    • @harrodsongs
      @harrodsongs Год назад +6

      @@Dead8Phish Yes that was Tipper Gore and my guess is the gent beside her was Secret Service.

    • @henrimatisse7481
      @henrimatisse7481 Год назад

      Ginni look alike

  • @kathygoheen4626
    @kathygoheen4626 Год назад +127

    He's still hilarious and on point in 2023😂🤣Love Al.

  • @womanofsubstance8735
    @womanofsubstance8735 Год назад +10

    Al, as usual, is/was great, and I wish he was back in the Senate.
    Somebody needs to ask the anti-Medicare crowd how much money could be saved on Medicare if govt would do something about reducing the cost of health care and medications.

  • @thomthom6268
    @thomthom6268 Год назад +45

    The algorithm got this one right. What a treat on a rainy DC afternoon.

  • @gheller2261
    @gheller2261 Год назад +57

    This was a master class on cadence and comic timing.

    • @grggsctt
      @grggsctt Год назад

      He could have taken more time with the seniors as soldiers bit. I don’t think he realized how much momentum he was building. It’s one of those pieces that could have brought the house down.

    • @J.M.-nb4gw
      @J.M.-nb4gw Год назад +4

      Very well said and spot on, Al Franken is a national treasure and possibly the best senator of the last 20 years. He's smart and funny and insightful and he always says and does what is best for the American people!

  • @Meinstein
    @Meinstein Год назад +63

    This should be cut up into it's "best of" clips.
    SO many really golden observations that hold up still today.. no matter which party is in power.

    • @cockeyedoptimista
      @cockeyedoptimista Год назад

      The part about Bob Dole and Holland was great. Also the part where he made fun of Jews (not) in the military. (I'm one, so I can laugh.)

  • @danolson5387
    @danolson5387 Год назад +26

    I just stumbled on this. I'd seen his other one (didn't realize he'd done it twice). He is the GREATEST satirist of the modern era. Like Twain was for his.

  • @michaelfritts6249
    @michaelfritts6249 Год назад +48

    His twist on "A Modest Proposal" was on point.

    • @zxbc1
      @zxbc1 Год назад +9

      The balls on Al to do such an acerbic satire with straight face in front of stuck up politicians, the very crowd that the satire aims to ridicule. You can see and hear the uneasy laugh in the audience.

    • @curtrice6060
      @curtrice6060 Год назад +4

      27 years, and is as relevant as yesterday 😊 .

    • @michaelfritts6249
      @michaelfritts6249 Год назад

      @@zxbc1 funny thing is, someone might read this and start a new "AI" consipracy because..
      Ignored the video
      AI and robots are in cahoots..
      Comedian Franken did become a Senator Franken..
      How did they know he would be a Senator in the Future..
      AI has obviously been around for awhile..
      😉😁🤣
      Be Well!! 😀

  • @robertcamilleri8613
    @robertcamilleri8613 6 месяцев назад +18

    The very best Comedian to grace a WHCD.

  • @jackhammer8563
    @jackhammer8563 Год назад +22

    It's April 2023 and all of his jokes made me laugh because I remember all of the back stories.🤣

    • @J.M.-nb4gw
      @J.M.-nb4gw Год назад +1

      I know right, I'm old too and remember ALL of this!

  • @jaybestnz
    @jaybestnz Год назад +108

    God I hope that Al hosts the Daily Show..

  • @JohnMarkOrg
    @JohnMarkOrg Год назад +8

    "and if you believe that, ive got some land in Arkansas I'd like to see ya"
    Bwahaha hahahaha!!!!

  • @poppamichael2197
    @poppamichael2197 Год назад +134

    Our senate could use the brilliance of Al Franken today. It is so sad that a single gratuitous, but gross, comedic gesture--which was wholly forgiven by the person who might have been offended--served as the basis, years later and in a different era, for a small but vocal movement to embarrass him and cause him to resign from the senate. All Americans lost something when he resigned, including those who lobbied for his banishment and who, most likely, will not be forgiven for it.

    • @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491
      @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 Год назад

      that woman betrayed her country
      i still wonder how much she got paid
      now the Dems were POSs

    • @louisemiller9921
      @louisemiller9921 Год назад +23

      Led by Kirsten Gillibrand for opportunistic reasons. I’ll never forgive her.

    • @andrealingenfelter576
      @andrealingenfelter576 Год назад

      I second that Gillibrand got on the bandwagon to “promote” her Pres run….Schumer put the screws to him….he should have had ethics committee and would have prevailed as his “offenses” were laughable and the woman in the “photo” was a conservative plant to bring him down. Gov Cuomo had way more dletailed and serious charges against him….and he resisted resigning for months. Franken was no given his due process…..phony Senators!!!!

    • @andrealingenfelter576
      @andrealingenfelter576 Год назад +18

      He even fit in as a Harvard graduate in the Senate and his questions were more incisive, detailed, to the point…like had he been able to question Kavanaugh!!!

    • @voxveritas333
      @voxveritas333 Год назад +10

      @@louisemiller9921 haven't heard anything much from or about her lately. Hope she leaves.

  • @channarosenblatt8197
    @channarosenblatt8197 Год назад +105

    Al Franken was simply stunning here. Laughing, laughing, laughing! Please give Al Franken the Daily Show host position. You are way too smart and way to funny not to have your own show.

    • @philgilmore1176
      @philgilmore1176 Год назад +3

      Is this really a possibility? He'd be terrific ..

    • @guyguyguy362
      @guyguyguy362 Год назад +3

      President Bill Clinton took time from a crazy busy job to do Make a Wish for a very sick child. "All I want is a Balanced Budget based on the Congressional Budget Office numbers, sir."

    • @charleslehner6083
      @charleslehner6083 Год назад

      Agreed😂

    • @charleslehner6083
      @charleslehner6083 Год назад

      ​@@guyguyguy362🎉

    • @commontater8630
      @commontater8630 Год назад +1

      @@philgilmore1176 Al was guest host of Daily Show for a spell and killed it.

  • @ZsuzsannaBudapest
    @ZsuzsannaBudapest Год назад +5

    Al Franken! I have your books,but watching you doing the sound effects makes it all more enjoyable. Thank you!!

  • @contrarian23
    @contrarian23 6 месяцев назад +132

    It's a great tragedy of American politics that Franken had to resign, and somehow Trump became president. We should all be ashamed.

    • @JulyChilds
      @JulyChilds 5 месяцев назад +4

      I am mad as hell. Ashamed? I told him not to resign I told her not to be a Roger stone stooge.

    • @juice14oj
      @juice14oj 4 месяца назад +7

      He didn't have to resign.

    • @AbeFroman-zx5hs
      @AbeFroman-zx5hs 4 месяца назад

      😢😢😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @AbeFroman-zx5hs
      @AbeFroman-zx5hs 4 месяца назад

      Annoy the left. Do nothing.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 3 месяца назад +1

      I'm ashamed of Al Franken.

  • @sandykravetz4523
    @sandykravetz4523 Год назад +83

    This is Franken performance is hilarious; so glad I stumbled into this on RUclips.

    • @FakingANerve
      @FakingANerve Год назад +7

      Same here. A lot of this material is in his books, but seeing him do this to in person _to_ his targets is something else! 😂

    • @gheller2261
      @gheller2261 Год назад

      He was very good, very tight through most of it, but probably went on 7 or 8 minutes too long.

    • @janineharkins3513
      @janineharkins3513 Год назад

      This is an amazing roast, but if you've never seen it, check out his roast of Rob Reiner. May be the single best roast I have ever seen.

    • @janineharkins3513
      @janineharkins3513 Год назад

      ​@@FakingANerve Comedians using material MORE than once?! Get right the heck outta town! Seriously, great book, too. Fat Idiot, Lying Liars, and The Truth have got to be histories best hat trick for political satire. Well, he's no Greg Gutfeld, but...I'm sorry. I'm thinking of Bill O'Reilly.

  • @lindamutch191
    @lindamutch191 Год назад +11

    Oh how I wish you were in Congress today!! We NEED YOU!! 😅😅😅

  • @eldergeektromeo9868
    @eldergeektromeo9868 6 месяцев назад +7

    In his usual, style (that is truly missed, btw) Al continues to slay the audience! Thanks Al. We miss you!

  • @hrshsmpt
    @hrshsmpt 4 года назад +72

    "would aluminum foil make a good space suit or would you just bake like a potato" certified genius

    • @Meinstein
      @Meinstein Год назад +5

      that one made me LOL.. something I do not often do.

    • @mattep74
      @mattep74 Год назад

      And then apple tv made a whole episode in for all mankind revolve around just that

  • @UserName_no1
    @UserName_no1 6 месяцев назад +5

    Who would've ever guessed Al would be drummed out for the reason he was (compare that to everything that's happened since) and that Rush Limpdick would receive the Medal of Freedom and thus forever tarnish the award. What a shame, on both accounts.

  • @Redmenace96
    @Redmenace96 Год назад +14

    I've watched about 10 these, and they are comedy gold. My first Al Franken episode. He is great!

  • @chrisanderson1608
    @chrisanderson1608 Год назад +26

    Anyone catch the "be safe" during the hand shake at the very end. I'm glad he's still around.

  • @terrancelewis2980
    @terrancelewis2980 Год назад +45

    Yeah he’s one of a kind. Shame what transpired - for all parties….. 😢

    • @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491
      @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 Год назад +1

      his Party refused to defend him
      and those women ....

    • @katmandudawn8417
      @katmandudawn8417 Год назад +4

      Certain members of his own party thought they would build their own brand off take taking Al out.
      I’m thinking about Kirsten Gillibrand…

    • @MrSoulauctioneer
      @MrSoulauctioneer Год назад

      well he did what he did, so it's on him

  • @sommmeguy
    @sommmeguy 6 месяцев назад +2

    Newt Gingrich and Steve Forbes. And we thought politics was bad in the 90s. I wish our politics was half as civil and well spoken now. There's a walk down memory lane. Franken is still the best.

  • @Yell5651
    @Yell5651 Год назад +5

    I missed it 5 years ago. Glad they ran it again.

  • @bill8985
    @bill8985 6 месяцев назад +2

    I could watch this a hundred times. The best part is him giving it to Newt. Over and again. That was the peak of Al's humor. He's funny, yeah, even today. But this made me crap my pants.

  • @davidtyler2012
    @davidtyler2012 Год назад +7

    i knew Alfonse D'Matto... he was a dick. that was a good impression

  • @sealyoness
    @sealyoness Год назад +9

    How FUN. A kinder and gentler time, I guess.

  • @Redmenace96
    @Redmenace96 Год назад +3

    This is from the era when I read newspapers and watched Cross Fire. I know all the characters he was roasting. Very funny, today.

  • @MarthaRoseMoore415
    @MarthaRoseMoore415 Год назад +19

    Holy crap - at about 2:31-33, right after Al says " mission accomplished" - You can TOTALLY hear Jake "I don't even know her" Tapper laughing. PRICELESS!!

  • @anncarlson7609
    @anncarlson7609 Год назад +5

    Run again. Please. The country needs you.

  • @helenstylianou5280
    @helenstylianou5280 Год назад +21

    I really like Al Franken, such a great shame he stepped down from the Senate. And I live in Cyprus.

  • @jefolson6989
    @jefolson6989 Год назад +18

    Al should have stayed and fought the GOP, but fellow democrats , in an effort to take the high road, through him under the bus. Brilliant comedian ,shrewd politician.

    • @johnajda
      @johnajda 2 месяца назад

      You mean “threw” (not through).

  • @robertgreen9150
    @robertgreen9150 5 месяцев назад +2

    Al, please come back as Senator as YOU are greatly needed!!!😊

  • @erikheymann9390
    @erikheymann9390 5 месяцев назад +2

    The joke about Charles Murray made me spit out my coffee, totally brilliant.

  • @craighunt6098
    @craighunt6098 Год назад +3

    OMG---I saw a shot of Sonny Bono in the crowd with a greying mustache---I Miss You Babe! :) On behalf of Cher and your millions of baby boomer fans!

  • @pauldicato5727
    @pauldicato5727 Год назад +8

    Effing HYSTERICAL !😂😂😂😂😂

  • @guynorth3277
    @guynorth3277 Год назад +19

    Gosh, I stumbled into this and Al had me roaring, that really was a treat!

    • @J.M.-nb4gw
      @J.M.-nb4gw Год назад

      I know right, Al Franken has been a national treasure since the 1970s and arguably his best years for from this point in the 90s until now!

  • @haeuptlingaberja4927
    @haeuptlingaberja4927 2 месяца назад

    Beck had that exact effect on me at a crazy show in Comiskey Park in Chicago in 1976. An electrical fire broke out while Jeff was playing. The massively oversold crowd panicked because the smoke was so thick and charged the ancient, not opened in decades emergency exits on the baseball field walls, which were only opened with a great deal of banging, thousands of kids left...and then Jeff Beck started playing the guitar intro to Blue Wind while the stage was still covered in heavy blue smoke. It was insane symmetry. It calmed everyone down, the fire was put out, the all-day show went on. I had already loved Jeff Beck for years, but that show was the most oddly personal connection I ever had with the great man.

  • @lintelle2382
    @lintelle2382 Год назад +7

    some folks since him have done an OK job, but this is Top Notch!

  • @IsaDesOsiers
    @IsaDesOsiers Год назад +15

    Brilliantly hilarious!

  • @susieb7305
    @susieb7305 Год назад +9

    You are funny. And smart. Sorry we lost u in congress.

  • @jpan7071
    @jpan7071 23 дня назад

    A genius. He has a wonderful podcast now. I do miss his days on Air America Radio. He was in top form those days.

  • @iamsria
    @iamsria Месяц назад +1

    Such a shame they ran Franken out of the Senate for a joke photo taken decades before. He was an important, level-headed influencer and we could really use him now.

  • @thomassicard3733
    @thomassicard3733 Год назад +3

    Franken is BRILLIANT!!!!

  • @johnarnold893
    @johnarnold893 Год назад +11

    Al should have switched to Independent and stayed in the Senate. The US needs more people like him running the show.

  • @sachiperez
    @sachiperez Год назад +40

    Kind, smart and too funny!

    • @cjjackson2475
      @cjjackson2475 Год назад +1

      He's not only a great patriot but also a true mensch! God bless his soul. ❤

  • @milart12
    @milart12 Год назад +5

    I'm not a huge Al Franken fan, but this is fantastic .

    • @J.M.-nb4gw
      @J.M.-nb4gw Год назад +1

      Definitely a classic!

    • @danbev8542
      @danbev8542 Год назад

      I’m a huge Al Frankenstein fan!

  • @picklefish74
    @picklefish74 Год назад +1

    I had forgotten all about that book. So now I have it on Audible.

  • @jamesgray9950
    @jamesgray9950 Год назад +33

    Al Franken is the best!

  • @jefolson6989
    @jefolson6989 Год назад +7

    Ive been bingeing WHCDs . As far as audience reaction, Franken is the best. ( Worst was Rich Little. Most savage: Michelle Wolf).

  • @sherryvt61
    @sherryvt61 3 месяца назад +1

    Al is a very funny dude. I've liked him since his days on SNL and especially his Stuart Smalley character.

  • @allenburnett5422
    @allenburnett5422 Год назад +5

    Would Al take over Late, Late, Late Night TV, or in other words, the CBS Morning Show?

  • @Bob-nw7do
    @Bob-nw7do 5 месяцев назад +2

    I liked Al since Saturday Nite Live.

  • @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491
    @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 Год назад +8

    man we still need Al !

  • @joanneclarke771
    @joanneclarke771 Месяц назад +1

    I hated losing him as a senator. But we got the comedian back.

  • @kaysloan2787
    @kaysloan2787 Год назад +4

    Love the little jab at Dick Cavett!

  • @MichaelMcFerrin
    @MichaelMcFerrin Год назад +1

    Al Franken used to be an announcer at Air America on then 1690 WWAA AM in Avondale Estates Georgia....now WMLB.

  • @erichvonmolder9310
    @erichvonmolder9310 Год назад +22

    Smart jokes and he delivers it well.

    • @robertafeiler5320
      @robertafeiler5320 Год назад

      Brilliant! Beautifully written and delivered .👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @Lambert7785
    @Lambert7785 Год назад +5

    strikes me as a rather tough gig to pull off... :). not having al on senate committees is a big loss to our balance and well being, in my view

  • @davidtyler2012
    @davidtyler2012 Год назад +2

    i just realized... Johnny Galecki borrowed heavily from Al Franken in creating his performance of Leonard Hofstadter.

  • @kenfletcher8855
    @kenfletcher8855 Год назад +6

    Brilliant!!!

  • @ksb2112
    @ksb2112 6 месяцев назад +1

    OMG. I haven't laughed this hard in weeks!

  • @kevinvilmont6061
    @kevinvilmont6061 Год назад +5

    The guy is talented.

  • @optophobe
    @optophobe Год назад +8

    What a talented man. Must have taken a very long time to prepare this very funny speech.

  • @CathieDonohoe
    @CathieDonohoe Год назад +4

    Franken is brilliant

  • @alysaad07
    @alysaad07 6 месяцев назад +2

    He shares so much with Letterman. Miss them both-

  • @kaipeterson
    @kaipeterson Год назад +5

    Al Franken for President!

  • @gregedwards5608
    @gregedwards5608 Год назад +13

    Outstanding Reality by him!!!... Smart and Comedic. Snl writer As well.

    • @melorafoy7109
      @melorafoy7109 Год назад

      He was great on SNL. Did Stuart Smally and "The Al.Franken Decade" on the Weekend update.

  • @cz2165
    @cz2165 Год назад +9

    His humor is too smart for these dweebs.

    • @cockeyedoptimista
      @cockeyedoptimista Год назад +1

      Those aren't dweebs, those are intelligent reporters, what are you talking about?

    • @commontater8630
      @commontater8630 Год назад

      @@cockeyedoptimista Maybe he means some of the commenters in this thread. I'd agree.

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle Год назад +4

    The Oliver Stone bit was very good, but Al had pretty much lost them by that point. They ran out of gas halfway through.

  • @christinekoehnen9696
    @christinekoehnen9696 Год назад +8

    ❤ Al

  • @phildirt3
    @phildirt3 Год назад +2

    Just think how great it would be if congress was full of al types

  • @Highley1958
    @Highley1958 Год назад +58

    At least Rush Limbaugh cared enough about America to drop dead.

  • @kevincallaghan326
    @kevincallaghan326 6 месяцев назад +1

    So brilliant and still funny as hell after all these years. More recent WHCP performers should have paid more attention to Franken's more balanced approach.

  • @lornahuddleston1453
    @lornahuddleston1453 Год назад +8

    "Come back to sit among the killers and eat their salmon"...

  • @MichaelLasotaMusic
    @MichaelLasotaMusic Год назад

    I saw a Dole campaign stop in Buffalo. Was the one and only, and amusing. I watched a lot of SNL at the time, so I went thinking he'd make the parody stuff. I was young and not so smart lol. Oh well. ~15? years old.

  • @djinnko
    @djinnko Год назад +1

    Back then, I did think Christine Whitman looked like she could be a close relative of (then) Prince Charles.😆

  • @cavaliermama56
    @cavaliermama56 5 месяцев назад +1

    They drove him out because he was brilliant and had a shot at the top.

  • @davidhowald4120
    @davidhowald4120 Год назад +4

    Al....hahahaahaha. i'm reminded again how intelligent and wicked funny you were....and still are.
    thanks al.

  • @joshuamorrison8332
    @joshuamorrison8332 Год назад

    Apparently sir you eat, eat a lot. The correspondent associated thinks that we could have a lot of harmless fun with that. Too funny!

  • @danieljstark1625
    @danieljstark1625 6 месяцев назад +1

    He is SO good. SO bright. So missed in the Senate.

  • @ellenmadsen7308
    @ellenmadsen7308 5 месяцев назад +2

    I think he should run again. Could see him at president.

  • @justbecauseOK
    @justbecauseOK Год назад +7

    this is amusing...a time before Trump...how innocent we were.

    • @MrSoulauctioneer
      @MrSoulauctioneer Год назад +2

      you think the list of subjects to avoid was a joke?

  • @chrismangold79
    @chrismangold79 Год назад +1

    Classic, great material. Love his attacks on the Newt.

  • @jwraithel
    @jwraithel Год назад +4

    Wow, some forgotten faces (like Sonny Bono!).

    • @cockeyedoptimista
      @cockeyedoptimista Год назад

      Can you tell me who the guy is at 9;27, clapping at the Dutch WWII Bob Dole joke? The guy with beard and dimples? I can't place him: who is it? (And where is Sonny? Geez. But I didn't watch the whole thing yet. [Saving it.])

  • @peterf7311
    @peterf7311 3 месяца назад

    Class act... he speaks the truth and he makes me laugh.. very insightful

  • @joelsommers
    @joelsommers Год назад

    That bit from 15 to 19 mark almost caused me to stroke out laughing. NASA and Medicare--two seemingly unrelated areas.