Posted on 11/14/2008 10:02:58 PM PST by Kukai
Though 2008 undoubtedly belongs to Barack Obama, it may also be remembered as the year of Saturday Night Live. It's not just that Tina Fey's impersonations of Sarah Palin will go down in history as the definitive entanglement of satire into the political process. It's also that a comedian best known for his work on Saturday Night Live has become embroiled in an epic battle that is still playing itself out, 10 days after the election, in the midwest state of Minnesota.
Al Franken has done a Palin in reverse. While she found herself satirised on a late-night TV stage, and put herself at the mercy of its millions of viewers, he took his track record as one of America's best-known liberal satirists on to the political stage - putting himself at the mercy of Minnesota voters.
Franken was one of the original writers on Saturday Night Live when it started in 1975. His characters such as the self-help guru Stuart Smalley earned him a devoted following and three Emmy awards over 15 years on the show.
Over time he sharpened his political bite until he became known as a leading antagonist of the radical Republican right. He was remorseless in his attacks on such pillars of conservatism as Rush Limbaugh's talkshow and Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel, which he excoriated in best-selling books and through his own show on the leftwing radio network Air America.
It was just a step from there to taking his political convictions to their conclusion: by standing for election himself. Almost two years ago, he uprooted his life in the media mecca of New York, returned to his home state of Minnesota and began running for the US Senate as a Democrat.
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How ANYONE could ever cast a vote for this rabid hate-filled bombthrower POS just shows how sick and twisted half the population is.
Star? STAR??? Who made him a STAR??? He was a bit player at best.
Did they just call Franken a “star”? You could argue Stuart Smalley had a following. It was a recurring character, after all. But I doubt more than 2% of anyone who remembers “The Daily Affirmation” knows it was him. Without the glasses and crazy hair, he’s incognito.
By the way, how much did the Stuart Smalley movie gross? Like, 13 bucks?
Franken hasn’t stolen it yet? Piker.
My favorite Franken campaign ad was the one where his wife told us what a great husband he is/was. How he stood by her during her alcohol problems......
So, basically, while he and all of his SNL cronies were dividing Peruvian Marching Powder on mirrors with razor blades, she was a slobbering drunk.
Nice endorsement......
Don't dance in the end zone yet socialist team. There are challenges to the call on the field.
At best,Mr. Franken is a poor comedian and a so-so writer.
I hope he STEALS it.....Minnesotans deserve him and the SANE people in the country will get to see what an ASS CLOWN they have elected. He’s the BEST the DEMOCRATS have to offer America....a TAX CHEATING PORNOGRAPHER!
I don’t watch SNL nor do I know what Tina Fey looks like or IS like other than what I read about her sliming Sarah Palin, that was all I needed to know.
Meanwhile, through the bombardment, Sarah’s star continues to rise, RINO governor’s records look pathetic next to her record, matter of fact, all politicians look pathetic next to her, they can’t measure up and I enjoy watching them eat themselves up in rage when her name is mentioned.
I’ve started answering some comments from liberals with “you betcha!”, do it and watch them almost self-destruct, it’s a hoot. Deranged.
That is a pathetic little number for a pathetic little man(boy?).
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