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Al Franken: Even Worse Than You Think
The Minnesota senator has never deserved a place in public life.
3:58 PM, Nov 16, 2017 | By Jonathan V. Last
Anyone who has followed the career of Al Franken should be unsurprised to learn that he was a jerk to Leeann Tweeden. Because if you go back to Live from New York, Tom Shales’ brilliant oral history of Saturday Night Live, Franken appears as a lying, drug-abusing (and distributing), jackass.
A couple choice excerpts—remember, this is an oral history, so they’re from the primary sources:
Al Franken: There was not as much cocaine as you would think on the premises. Yeah, a number of people got in trouble. But cocaine was used mainly just to stay up. There was a very undisicplined way of writing the show, which was staying up all night on Tuesday. We didn't have the kind of hours that normal people have. And so there was a lot of waiting until Tuesday night, and then going all night, and at two or three or four in the morning, doing some coke to stay up, as opposed to doing a whole bunch, and doing nitrous oxide, and laughing at stuff. People used to ask me about this and I'd always say, "No, there was no coke. It's impossible to do the kind of show we were doing and do drugs." And that was just a funny lie that I liked to tell. Kind of the opposite was true, unfortunately, for some people, it was impossible to do the show without the drugs.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/al-franken-even-worse-than-you-think/article/2010505
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I'll say. That Franken and Davis skit on SNL really sucked.
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I'll say. That Franken and Davis skit on SNL really sucked.
I'll say that Al Franken only found himself in the Senate due to MASSIVE voter fraud in the state of Minnesota!