Al Franken loves to tell the story of how his dad would laugh at Buddy Hackett until he coughed up phlegm. Those evenings with his father, watching Johnny Carson in the living room of their Minnesota home, inspired Franken to become a comedian. Franken’s dad was also a card-carrying member of the NAACP who quit […]
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