Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
AL FRANKENBut I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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