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Al Franken

"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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."

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Amber Hurdle

"The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny."

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Amber Hurdle

"They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight."

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Amber Hurdle

"I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile."

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Amber Hurdle

"People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life."

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Amber Hurdle

"I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good."

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Al Franken
"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."

Money

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Al Franken
"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you."

Power

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Al Franken
"The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good."

Business

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Al Franken
"Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that."

Being

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

Comedy

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Al Franken
"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."

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Al Franken
"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."

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Al Franken
"I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'"

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Al Franken
"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."

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Al Franken
"I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks."

People

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