Senator Al Franken and Comedy's Relationship to Politics (Ep. 8)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Larry Wilmore discusses Trump’s recent meeting with Vladimir Putin, the controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr., and the “nothing burger” that is the current administration (1:00). Later, Larry sits down with current U.S senator and former 'SNL' cast member Al Franken to discuss comedy, politics, and comedy's relationship to politics (10:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Black on the Air.
0:09.6	It's me Larry Womor, your host.
0:11.7	Happy to be back.
0:12.7	I mean, happy to be back.
0:13.7	Even I messed that up.
0:14.7	I didn't even mean that as a joke.
0:17.1	I haven't so much fun doing this podcast, by the way.
0:20.9	And once again, I really want to thank everybody for listening and subscribing, telling your
0:25.3	friends about it, shouting it from the buildings, everything.
0:29.9	It's really been awesome.
0:30.9	Been hearing from you on Twitter, on Facebook, and in the grand when I go on that in person,
0:37.8	people stop me on the street.
0:38.8	It's really been great.
0:39.8	Keep sending me your ideas for guests.
0:41.7	People have some really good ideas there.
0:43.4	I'm absolutely going to try some of those ideas.
0:45.9	And any questions you have too, keep tweeting them.
0:49.4	It's really a lot of fun to get them.
0:52.3	So what is going on?
0:53.3	We just had the G20 summit in Europe and Trump got to hang out with his buddy Putin
0:59.7	for a while.
1:00.7	He was so happy.
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