![]() ![]() I learned a lot from him about comedy writing and public service - and I somehow got an Emmy nomination out of it, for helping write his segments with Arianna Huffington that aired on Comedy Central’s Politically Incorrect during the 1996 political conventions. The book spent 7 weeks in the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list, and I spent the next two years helping Al with whatever he was doing. I wound up writing postcards to all of these people that began, “Dear _: Al Franken has requested that I write to inform you I am not dead.” Not every reader got the joke, and a handful of them were upset enough to write letters to Al condemning him for allowing me to die. health care system, my character dies of an easily treatable disease because Al isn’t required to provide his employees with health insurance. He also wrote me into the book as a semi-fictional character, “Geoff the research assistant” - and in one chapter, as part of a larger point Al was making about the inequities in the U.S. ![]() In 1995, Al Franken hired me to help him research RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT (AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS). ![]()
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