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Is It Just Me, Or Is Al Franken Really Not Funny
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Posted on 08/13/2003 4:50:45 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: Impeach the Boy
Franken was on during the Chase, Akroyd, Radner, Beloushi years.
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posted on
08/13/2003 10:00:30 AM PDT
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TankerKC
(If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?)
To: ido_now
The only really funny SNL people were: Ackroyd, Curtin, Morris, Radner, Murphy, Lovitz, Hartman and of course Fr Guido Sarducci. LOL. I recall the time Father Quido was talking about his trip to the Holy Land. Seems a fellow offerred to sell him the original menu to the Lord's Supper. Father Quido said, "He wanted $500, but I "presbyteried" him down to $250".
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To: PhilipFreneau
"I recall the time Father Quido was talking about his trip to the Holy Land. Seems a fellow offerred to sell him the original menu to the Lord's Supper. Father Quido said, "He wanted $500, but I "presbyteried" him down to $250"."
Two, among many, other classics were of him selling "Pope" buttons prior to the Pope visiting the U.S. and find the "Pope" in the pizza contest. He was also the source via Chicago of the Pepsi-Pepsi-Cheezeburger-Cheezeburger.... bit.
I really miss getting the inside "scoup" from Salvaltoria Romana the Vatican Newspaper.
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:04:36 PM PDT
by
ido_now
To: Impeach the Boy
He's exactly as funny as Chris Rock and Bill Maher added together and divided by 0.
To: ido_now
I can only agree with Gilda Radner and Phil Hartman. I would also add Bill Murray and Martin Short, who is more of an SCTV guy anyway (and SCTV was a superior show, by far.
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:15:13 PM PDT
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HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: TankerKC
Franken could ONLY have been with the talented ones just before they all left.....I watched during those years...I don't remember Franken being WITH the funny ones.
To: bird humming
Always wondered what Lorne Greene saw in Big Creepy Al. Lorne Greene was the star of Bonanza, Battle Star Galactica and Alpo commercials. Lorne Michael was SNL's executive producer, but I'm sorry I have no idea what Lorne saw in Fat Al either.
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posted on
08/13/2003 8:23:34 PM PDT
by
Once-Ler
(Proud Republican and Bushbot)
To: Impeach the Boy
The only thing of his I thought was funny was when he was a "medical correspondent" for Weekend Update, and he was doing a story on then President' Reagan's upcoming prostate surgery.
To: Impeach the Boy
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posted on
08/15/2003 11:40:47 PM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(George Ryan deserves a long term....without parole.)
To: Impeach the Boy
One SNL skit/newscast has stuck with me... After the ''me decade'' (the 70's) he declared the 80's the ''Al Franken decade''. It could have been funny if he didn't actually believe it.
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posted on
08/16/2003 12:00:45 AM PDT
by
Jessamine
(September 22 is the deadline for registering voters who will Grayout Davis!)
To: HitmanNY
This is late, but you're right about SCTV. The funniest show ever. SNL is not even close.
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posted on
08/25/2003 8:11:44 PM PDT
by
driftless
( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: Impeach the Boy
I remember one skecth I found funny during the first Gulf War, where he was a network reporter out in the desert with some big backpack satellite uplink thing with a dish mounted on a helmet. As the Weekend update people keep going back to him, he becomes more and more overcome by the heat and eventually passes out with a vulture pecking at his head.
I don't know why, but his very deadpan delivery was very funny to me.
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