Live From New York: It's Al Franken
By Richard S. Lee, April 16, 1976
Live From New York: It's Al Franken
By Richard S. Lee, April 16, 1976
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"My advice to Harvard students," Al Franken said soberly, "is to drop out."
It was hard to tell whether Franken was serious or not. His round, plump face certainly looked sincere, and with the aura of innocence radiating from his big, thick glasses and curly hair, who would have doubted him? He was, after all, a 1973 Harvard alumnus himself, so he should have known something about the value of his Psych and Soc Rel degree.
But something wasn't quite right. Franken was sitting in his writing office for "NBC's Saturday Night," a new, New York-based television comedy show. And that chair Franken was sitting in--that was the chair he is paid to sit in and make jokes.
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