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According to Crimson archives, Al Franken spent a lot of his time as a Harvard undergraduate involved in the campus theatrical scene. Among his achievements were launching a cabaret in Currier House and staging an original musical about Richard Nixon. Perhaps his greatest achievement was starring as comic Lenny Bruce in the play Lenny (later made into a movie by Bob Fosse). The Dunster House production of Lenny marked the play’s first amateur performance...
...Lenny Bruce, Alan Franken is the nerve center of the production. Handling Lenny Bruce’s words with a sure feel for their comedy and poignancy, Franken makes it needless to debate the accuracy of his portrayal, Franken is not imitating Bruce, but he infuses the role with a vitality which recreates Lenny’s charm, wit and concern. Making the transition to convincing desperation when he is finally convicted of obscenity charges proves difficult for the ebullient actor, but he recovers his depth of characterization as Bruce’s degradation increases...
When Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) invited comedian and political satirist Al Franken ’73 to be a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy last spring, Franken was surprisingly unmoved...
...couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders,” Franken writes in his new best-selling book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. “Unless it was spending fireside evenings sipping sherry with great minds at the Faculty Club. Yawn...
...Franken, who is currently on a book tour promoting his new release, was the College’s Class Day speaker in 2002 and served last year as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center...