10 Questions For Al Franken
Actor Al Franken at the celebration for TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People issue at Jazz at Lincoln Center May 8, 2006, in New York City.
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I've read their pilots, and they couldn't be more different from each other. One is a high-gloss, beautifully produced show written by [The West Wing's] Aaron Sorkin. The other, from [SNL cast member] Tina Fey, is more about the funny. I'm rooting for both. But I'm developing a third show. [Laughs.]
You might run for the Senate in Minnesota in 2008. Why have celebrities--Reagan, Schwarzenegger, even Fred Grandy, the guy who played Gopher on The Love Boat--been so successful as politicians?
Yeah, but how successful was Gopher, really?
And your campaign slogan?
"I'm Serious."
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