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Al Franken, giant of the Senate / by Al Franken.

by Franken, Al.

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Twelve Large Print , 2017.

LP 328.73092 F829a

United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.

Saturday night live (Television program) -- Biography.

Political campaigns -- United States -- Biography.

Political satire, American -- Biography.

Satirists -- United States -- Biography.

Parody television programs -- History and criticism.

Sketch comedy television programs -- History and criticism.

Comedy sketches -- United States -- History and criticism.

Television comedies -- United States -- History and criticism.

Television comedy writers -- United States -- Biography.

Live television programs -- United States -- History and criticism.

Comedians -- United States -- Biography.

Legislators -- United States -- Biography.

9781455571208 (hc.)

1455571202 (large print)

Alternate title:

Giant of the Senate

Large print edition.

vi, 548 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Why I'm a Democrat -- How I became a comedian -- Saturday Night Live (not the drug part) -- Saturday Night Live (the drug part) -- Saturday Night Live (the part where I leave) -- Paul -- A 99 percent improvement -- Year of the bean feed -- The DeHumorizer(TM) -- I attempt to litigate comedy -- Hermann the German and the pill-out couch -- No joke -- Harry and Chuck -- Icarus soars -- Twixt cup and lip -- Public opprobrium -- My first powwow -- Tax-dodging, rape-joking pornographer for Senate -- Franni saves the campaign -- "Has it gotten that bad?!" -- "It's close, it's very close" -- The recount -- Welcome to the NFL -- I actually become a senator -- My first big win* -- What gets me out of bed in the morning -- The case of Perry Mason's lost case -- The angel and the devil -- Never give the staff credit -- Letting my id run amok -- I screw up -- Operation curdle -- Health care: now what? -- I meet George W. Bush -- The 64 percent rule -- My Republican friends -- Sophistry -- Bulletproof -- Cracks in my soul -- The Koch brothers hate your grandchildren -- No whining on the yacht -- I win awards -- We build a DeHumorizer(TM) -- I get reelected -- Lies and the lying liar who got himself elected President -- I attend a presidential inauguration -- Being as good as the people we serve.

A comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why comedians tend not to do that. An unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. What happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. The story of our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes dramatic and hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Alan Stuart Franken is an American comedian, actor, writer and politician. He is currently the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live.

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