Question: What’s funnier than an Al Franken joke?
Answer: Al Franken on the Senate Judiciary Committee!
Of course, it doesn’t take much to be funnier than an Al Franken joke, but a comedian instead of an attorney on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee? (See the Fort Worth Star-Telegram— “art” eventually imitated life as Franken once played a senator on that committee during a Saturday Night Live skit about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas.)
Come to think of it, the bizarre is the new normal in the Age of Obama.
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[...] He hasn’t been in office for a week, yet the misfit Al Franken has reverted to form, making jokes at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor (per AOL news wire, here). Perry Mason jokes, of all things. Probably because he’s so out of his depth he has no clue what to ask. He is a product of TV, after all, so, most likely, that’s the basis for his frame of legal and political references. What’s next, a quote from President Jed Bartlett (West Wing). [...]