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  1. says

    John Edwards apparently thought enough of The Daily Show and its resonance to announce something a tad more important than what Franken would have been announcing. And that was three years ago!

  2. Will E. says

    He didn’t like it though when Jon’s punchline about the Jewish son was funnier than his own!

  3. Fox1 says

    “He didn’t like it though when Jon’s punchline about the Jewish son was funnier than his own!”

    That looked like grudging admiration for comedic effect, to me, but I can’t tell if you’re joking, so it’s probably risky for me to accuse you of missing the joke…
    It’s one of those eternal human dilemmas, I think.

  4. clarke says

    Fox1, you’re right, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Will’s wrong. Take it from a comedian.

    Not a good one, mind you, but I think this gets into “those who can’t, teach/Roger Ebert wrote the Return to the Valley of the Dolls screenplay” territory.

  5. Grumpy says

    Of course, after Franken makes The Announcement, he’ll have to answer the other big question: will Bill Hillsman work on his campaign??

  6. colin says

    Is it just me or did Franken seem to be in a pissy mood? Maybe this whole running for office thing is turning him sour and curmudgeonly. Not that I blame him — politics can make anyone prune up faster than a newt in a microwave.

  7. Craig says

    Is it just me or did Franken seem to be in a pissy mood? Maybe this whole running for office thing is turning him sour and curmudgeonly.

    Could be. Or maybe its that whole “the country is going into the shitter” thing. Some people are touchy about that stuff.

  8. Steviepinhead says

    Craig:

    Or maybe its that whole “the country is going into the shitter” thing.

    I wasn’t as worried as I perhaps should have been when we were just circling round and round.

    But then it really started to smell bad.

    We started losing elevation.

    And now I’m hearing this loud, roaring sound…

  9. Will E. says

    But Jon’s punchline *was* funnier than Al’s!

    I think it’s show biz etiquette: Thou shalt not step on a guest’s joke, and Jon broke that rule. Ah well.