You Can Call Him Al

On many, if not most of Al Franken’s podcasts he begins by saying, “Well, folks, we’ve got a great one for a change.”  This week he starts with, “We’ve got an odd one.”  And so it is.  Not at first.  At first, he has one of his favorite guests, Dahlia Lithwick of whom he writes, “The great Dahlia Lithwick discusses RBG, SCOTUS, the Election. Depressing? Yes. But then the exciting world premiere of The Day the President Laughed!”  And that’s the odd part.  Thinking that, as he says, you’ll need to laugh after that, this is a 35-minute allegory Franken wrote and performs, with the assistance of some guest stars.  It’s about when Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Jared all realize that they never have seen Trump laugh, and so have a contest to see who can make him laugh – and the winner gets title to one of the family’s high-rises in mid-town Manhattan.