This has been amusing me all morning — ever since I read it, it’ll pop back into my head and I’ll start laughing again.
At the MoveOn.org awards presentation [for Bush in 30 Seconds], Al Franken made the sign-language interpreter crack up by saying solemnly, “I heard Al Franken make fun of deaf people backstage. Let’s kill him.”
That, my friends, is good comedy.
(via Lane)
iTunes: “Pandora’s Aquarium” by Amos, Tori from the album From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998, 4:45).
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Have you read his new book, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them? If you are a Franken fan, sick of the bs from the right in general, or just a fan of good comedy, check it out. I got it as an xmas gift on audio book (read by Franken himself) and it was fantastic. I’d like to get it in print to get all of the references, but hearing him read it was hilarious. He even spruces it up a bit with sound bites, skits, funny voices, and other things that can’t be done well in a paper book. I highly suggest it.
I have the print version, and I have to admit that while I enjoyed the funny bits and the innuendo, I thought that Al was equally guilty of the same thing he was accusing the conservative media of — attacking for the sake of attacking, without everything needed to back it up. Particularly the Ann Coulter bit. Yes, she’s loony, and he disagrees with her point of view, but he didn’t ever say what it was that he disagreed with, only that she was loony. Or, maybe, as he said in the introduction, maybe I just didn’t get the joke. hm.
Was the print version different than the audio? Maybe I need to go back and listen to it again, but I didn’t get the impression that his beef with Ann was so empty. He did spent time calling her loney, but after talking about her methods—how to lie with footnotes, oh I mean endnotes—he seemed to have supported it well. shrug I’ll have to go back and listen to it again. I really need to go pick up the print version.
I recommend the book: it’s angry and at times shrill, but there’s nothing wrong with that. I prefer righteous indignation to contemptuous smugness …
My wife couldn’t finish it though: it made her too upset. The sheer brazen meanness of it all just put her off.
I’ve been curious about the book for a while now — almost picked it up at one point, but at that point it was just before Christmas, and I figured it was better to wait ‘just in case.’
Casey — on the off chance we ever run into each other again, any chance of borrowing it?
Well, we’re looking for folks to take a turn doing chores around the house after the baby is born… You wanna come organize my cd’s for a change?