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It’s Official: The First (Professional) Comedian in the U.S. Senate
Faye Fiore, LA Times: Al Franken, the funnyman who wrote the best-seller Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, was sworn in as the junior senator from Minnesota on Tuesday, without doing one single funny thing.
Once he was known on the Saturday Night Live stage as the lisping, sweater-wearing bundle of insecurities Stuart Smalley (”I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me”). But Franken stepped into the ornate Senate chamber to take his oath of office in a charcoal gray suit from Men’s Wearhouse, Bible in hand, surrounded by political allies eager to cast him as a serious addition to Congress.
