I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
AL FRANKENGary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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