He said he applauded the electoral process in Minnesota for its transparency and integrity. "Well, fortunately I lost my sense of humour right away," he smiled. She asked Franken whether it was "hard to keep your mouth shut," considering his shoot-from-the-hip sense of humour – the one that once led him to provoke a lawsuit with Bill O'Reilly. The former Saturday Night Live cast member declared it lost forever this week, making the announcement during a Meredith Vieira interview on NBC's The Daily Show. Minnesota Senator-elect Al Franken (take a deep breath and say that again) has lost his sense of humour. It wrote Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.Īnd now it's dead. (Feb.It gave birth to Stuart Smalley, self-help guru and member of Overeaters Anonymous. A mean-spirited, albeit funny, diatribe that will delight liberals. Franken also doesn't have anything nice to say about Newt Gingrich, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Phil Gramm and others of the haranguing right. There are two hilarious sketches: ""My `Conversation' with Rush Limbaugh"" uses out-of-context quotes to corner Rush in much the same way that Limbaugh once had a ""conversation"" with Hillary Clinton and ""Operation Chickenhawk,"" with Ollie North leading Vietnam draft-dodgers Limbaugh, Quayle, Buchanan, George Will and Clarence Thomas to their demises in Asian rice paddies. Franken does a retrospective of Limbaugh's life from when he ""fed off the largesse of the government in the form of unemployment insurance"" how he failed to register to vote until he was 35 how he used two airline coach seats to fit his opulent hind-quarters and how he got a 4-F deferment because of a pilonidal cyst. Using admitted half-truths and out-of-context quotes, he skewers Rush & Friends as no liberal has done in years. Franken, a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live and in feature films, does to Limbaugh what the conservative talk-show host has been doing to Democratic politicians for years.
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