Al Franken Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

  Al Franken

  Advice, Encounters, Comedy

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.16, Penguin

• When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

  Al Franken

  President, Campaigns, Comedy

  "If Clark is Schwarzenegger, who is Huffington?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2003.

• I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

  Al Franken

  People, Comedy, Personal Attacks

• The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

  Al Franken

  Team, Years, Wings

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

• I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

  Al Franken

  Lying, Media, Wings

• If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

  Al Franken

  Believe, Soldier, Troops

  "American Forces Radio: Objective view of the home front?" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

• Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

  Al Franken

  People, Comedian, Pressure

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

• It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

  Al Franken

  Splendor, Comedy, Almighty

  "On Being Thankful" by Paul Reiser, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2005.

• Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  Al Franken

  Feet, Years, Guy

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

• And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

  Al Franken

  Fun, Book, Writing

• Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Comedy, Wells

  "Al Franken and the Lying Liars". Interview with Scott Vogel, www.alternet.org. June 12, 2003.

• Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, “Senator Maddow” & More". Interview with Mark Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.

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