Al Franken: Finding Comedy in Politics

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week Donny is joined by former United States senator and comedian, Al Franken. Franken, who hosts "The Al Franken Podcast", sits down to discuss his days on Saturday Night Live, stealing a pair of GAP jeans from the set, and being in awe of Paul McCartney when he was the musical guest on the show. The two also discuss what’s going on in the U.S. and their thoughts on what may happen if Donald Trump is elected president again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.5	producer, entertainer, a fan of him as a politician, and as a human being. He's of course the
1:17.5	great Al Franken, the former senator from the great state of Minnesota. We've got a lot of
1:22.3	politics to talk about.
1:23.4	He's also got a major podcast, the Al-Franken podcast.
1:27.1	He's got a Super PAC, the Midwest Values Pact that we'll talk about.
1:30.6	He's recently started a huge stand-up tour. Al-Franken launched the aptly name
1:36.2	an evening of new stand-up with Al-Franken. It kicked off in Chicago a few weeks ago.
1:41.6	We got a lot to talk about welcome sir.
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