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Laughter filled Lowell Lecture Hall Friday afternoon when Al S. Franken '73 shared his humorous views on current events, the 2000 presidential campaign and Harvard, among other subjects...
...sank every cent you had, or maybe didn't have, into making a movie, a funny, feature-length film. Somehow, you were able to talk Teri Garr, Al Franken, Bob Balaban and Roy Scheider into acting in it. And let's say that the movie made the circuit of independent film festivals in 1998, and won a couple of Best Picture-type awards. You'd expect that one of the studios would pick up your masterpiece and distribute it, right...
...Franken: The only solution I can see is for white people to start committing more crimes...
...also called Al Franken, who contributes jokes to various Democratic Senators. I asked Franken how much I should ask to get paid. "If you're doing it for Bob Smith, charge as much as you can and then write really bad jokes," he said. But I told him I wanted to be good at politics and not let policy get in my way. He agreed. "Suddenly everyone will take notice of how funny Bob Smith is, and then you can jump onto a bigger campaign. You just have to wait until after the New Hampshire primary, when he'll drop...
This show is sure to be two snaps, a twist and a kiss. David Alan Grier of In Living Color's Men on Film fame struts his stand-up at the Comedy Connection. And we guarantee he's nicer than Al Franken. Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall. 248-9700. 8 p.m., 10:15 p.m. $21. Also Saturday...