Can you name the US Senator in this picture?

[underpants]

?w=680

[Adrahil]

1. ...

Al Franken on the left.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Oh my,haved seen that picture

for years. Mr.Al Franken. Wedding photo?

[underpants]

13. Cover of Tom Davis's "Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss"

Really really good read. I've posted some bits about it on this thread.

[First Speaker]

3. You might think it's Al Franken...

...but it's actually Mitch McConnell, on the right, at his gay wedding...

[ornotna]

4. Everett Dirksen

back in the day when he partied.

[kentuck]

5. Here he is in his prime.

[ornotna]

6. Haha! That's great!

Gotta love Al Franken. Glad he's on our side.

[LeftInTX]

7. I haven't seen that before!

[underpants]

9. The way she speaks ... talking to

Haven't seen that in years. Franken is mocking Jagger's outfit and use to lifts - which was new then- in what was the first Stones farewell tour ('81?). My brother actually got a signed note from our Mother that she was to be excused from school because he was buying Rolling Stones tickets. Massive grassroots thing started by a local radio station to get the Stones to play at the Hampton Coliseum. My brother gave my daughter his shirt from that show.

Tom Davis story related to the Stones from "Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss". Dan Ackroyd is MC'ing the main stage at the Sturgis rally and he takes TOM along for fun and to write jokes. Early-mid 80's. There's a "special guest" as the headliner. At the time for an event like this everyone expected it to be the Stones. Special guests of the CEO of Harley-Davidson. Ackroyd sneaks a peak at the envelope he's given to introduce the main event as he is walking on stage. He tells Tom "get in the limo and have the driver ready to go". Aykroyd walks on stage and announces "Ladies and Gentlemen, our special guest ....Elton John". Donnie was in the limo with wheels moving in about 20 seconds.

[LuckyLib]

17. What a great story! Thank you!

[Cooley Hurd]

36. I saw them at the Carrier Dome in '81

Great show!

[Lucinda]

10. Is that Marilyn McCoo? n/t

[kentuck]

21. Now that you mention it...

I think it is.

[FuzzyRabbit]

33. Definitely Marilyn McCoo

This looks like it's from the TV show "Solid Gold" that she hosted for a couple years.

[3catwoman3]

31. That was really Al being Jagger?

That was hilarious!

[pfitz59]

34. Al franken is no wimpy dude

he was a wresteler, and this video shows he stayed in shape.

[lillypaddle]

39. Amazing!

He was so good. Still is, only in a different way. hahahahaha!

[oberliner]

8. Have you seen Al Franken's Senate tribute to Tom Davis?

Quite moving:

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/kitty-felde/2012/07/26/9146/al-franken-says-goodbye-writing-partner-senate-flo/

[underpants]

12. He could definitely write. Thanks.

Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is Davis's autobiography. Highly recommend it.

Davis and Aykroyd always went on exotic Christmas trips ending up at Dead shows on New Years Eve. The story about them in Times Square is pure Aykroyd and hilarious.

[klook]

18. Really great.

First time I've seen this. Thanks much for the link.

I get nothing from the usual "live each day as if it's your last" paeudo-inspirational schmalz. These comments from Al Franken, and Tom Davis's wry essay, are right up my alley. Who says you can't simultaneously have empathy and irreverent humor -- even about your own demise?

[calimary]

23. This is beautiful and bittersweet.

I'd missed this the first time around.

Btw - used to work with Kitty Felde, whose blog this is. She's absolutely terrific! A SUPERB writer/producer/reporter/communicator. A genius. And a genuinely nice person, too. There was one Golden Mikes night during which she was called up to the stage three times to collect awards. Swept all her categories. No surprise at all.

[sdfernando]

11. Al Franken......on the left /nt

[ReformedGOPer]

14. He's good enough. He's smart enough, and doggone it

people like him.......

[Submariner]

15. Al was one of the first to do live satellite broadcasts

May favorite photo of Al.

[drm604]

24. Ohmigod, I remember that! I haven't thought about that in years.

The thing about Al is that he's smart. That's why he was so funny. He'd be good at whatever he set his mind to, and we're fortunate that he chose politics.

[underpants]

35. My Monday morning LOL

Thanks

[Recursion]

16. Theodore G. Bilbo? (nt)

[bdamomma]

19. a very young

Al Franken! he had some hair!

[NNadir]

20. He's a great Senator, and would, I think, make a pretty good President. n/t

[calimary]

22. We are all living in The Al Franken Decade.

I hope it lasts for a LONG time.

I loved Franken and Davis! Those were the days...

[L. Coyote]

25. Franken & Davis as The Rolling Stones - "Under My Thumb"

[L. Coyote]

26. Al Franken as Henry Kissinger 1980

[grantcart]

27. I had the same hair in college lol

[Historic NY]

28. The Al Franken Decade....

its still rolling.....

[Lifelong Protester]

29. Let's hear it for Al!!

[L. Coyote]

30. SNL Early Years' Drugs, Al Franken and John Belushi: Tom Davis

[progressoid]

38. That was great.

I'm going to have to read his book.

[jberryhill]

32. That's definitely Arlen Specter on the right there

Or was that Phil Spector? Well, either way, it's one of them.

[arthritisR_US]

37. Al Franken