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The Al Franken Podcast

Best Of: Patton Oswalt is Great!

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Really great!

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0:00.0

1. Hey! Hey everybody we got a great one today you know for a change and this time I mean it because

0:31.1

it's a best of and we never air a best of that was just terrible and that's a promise and

0:39.0

We're doing a best of because Peter and I deserve a break, especially me, right Peter?

0:46.0

Yeah.

0:48.0

Now today is an especially great best of because my guest is the brilliant Patton Oswald.

0:54.1

And Patton is one of the few stand-ups out there

0:57.4

who does political humor every so often.

1:00.2

But during our conversation,

1:02.1

he gave his explanation of why it's hard to do comedy about Trump.

1:09.2

This was his analogy.

1:11.0

Trump is a 18-wheeler full of monkeys on PCP and it crashes into a train full of diarrhea.

1:20.1

And now there's diarrhea covered monkeys on PCP running around.

1:23.6

Everyone's watching it and you as a comedian walk up go,

1:26.6

you want to hear some jokes I wrote about this?

1:28.3

Like, no, we're good.

1:29.9

It's diarrhea covered monkeys on PCP. What are you talking about? You know? So it was that- Oh, and by the way,

1:37.8

That was a very good explanation. Thank you.

1:41.6

Of what was so frustrating for comedians to hear like yeah what a

1:46.4

gold mine this guy is now it's this one joke I mean I also said that it's impossible to

1:51.8

keep up with him because he it's my analogy was he's a crazy guy on the sidewalk and he's just taking a dump and then you turn to your friends and you have this amazing joke about the guy taking the dump and by the time he turned to them they're like oh he

2:04.1

turned back around he made the took his poo and made a pinata out of it he has it on his head and you're like

2:09.1

oh I don't have a material like there's no way to keep up with him there's no shelf life

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