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Albert "Al" S. Franken '73 is living proof that success is the best revenge...
...Franken twice comped The Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. And he was twice cut from the comp...
...Franken's comic genius is that even though he's made it to prime time, he will never seem ready for it. In NBC's new comedy Lateline (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), a spoof of Nightline, the Saturday Night Live veteran (Remember "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me"?) plays the indefatigable correspondent Al Freundlich as a mixture of Jeff Greenfield's best-boy-in-class earnestness and Sam Donaldson's bouncy intensity. In this week's premiere, under the mistaken impression that he's replacing narcissistic anchor Pearce McKenzie (appealingly pompous...
...special Washington screening of the series, that scene got a big laugh. Well, what do you expect from an audience of news nuns (and monks) and the politicians they cover? To expand the show's appeal to normal people, Franken recruited his old friend John Markus, who won an Emmy for his six years as writer and co-executive producer of The Cosby Show, to be his co-writer and executive producer. Franken, who knew a lot about political humor (he's the author of the best-selling Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations) but nothing...
...answers to market turmoil are there, from whimsical millionaires to crop reports to the mysterious Clarence Beeks. And it's got everybody under one zany '80s tent: Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Denholm Elliot. Jamie Lee Curtis' breasts. Paul Gleason, the principal from The Breakfast Club. Even an Al Franken cameo, as a jaded gorilla handler (if there is such a thing...