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This year will be the third consecutive Class Day that features a comedian as the speaker—Will Ferrell spoke last year and Al Franken ’73 addressed seniors...
...last four years have seen a series of entertainers as Class Day speakers, with Will Ferrell addressing Tercentenary Theater in 2003, Al Franken ’73 in 2002 and Conan C. O’Brien...
Before Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Al Franken, there was MORT SAHL, who revitalized stand-up comedy in the 1950s with his trenchant political wit. TIME joined the laughter in a 1960 cover story on the verge of an election...
...Rush Limbaugh. However, because of Harvard’s immense liberal community, there’s no comparable baggage for campus liberals; they aren’t harassed over e-mail lists or berated for any conservatives’ beastly perceptions of MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky, Al Franken ‘73 or even Presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)—and I assure you such perceptions exist...
...left, he is less a partisan ideologue than a partisan of the market. And though Fox News succors Republicans, its true significance is broader: it points to a future in which media are more targeted and more blatant about their biases. It's too early to know if Al Franken's stab at liberal radio will thrive or if Al Gore's liberal cable channel will ever get off the ground, but both are Murdoch ricochets, for better or for worse...