and i in response to something he has said. how is that? laughter comes easy for the veteran member of saturday night live. he doesn t always leave in satire. he add some fun last week for mark begich who lost his seat in the midterm election. we need more mayors here. sometimes we say we need more diversity, we need more women. god knows we need more satirists. a lot of people ask me is being senator as much fun as working on saturday night live . and the answer, of course, is no. it s not close. but it s the best job i ve ever had. in 2008, you barely, barely, barely won, right? i don t think that s fair. by a few hundred votes.
and i have laughed in response to something he has said. how s that? laughter comes easy for the veteran member of saturday night live. though as a senator, he doesn t always lead with satire. he had some fun in his farewell speak last week for mark begich, who lost his seat. we need more mayors here, you know, sometimes we say we need more sdwersdiversity, we need m women. god knows we need more satirists. a lot of people ask me, is being a senator as much fun as working on saturday night live ? and the answer, of course, is no. it s not close. but it s the best job i ve ever had. and franken got that promotion by a razor-thin margin. in 2008 you barely, barely, barely won. i don t think that s fair.
the 1960s were certainly a fascinating time. our government is asking us to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. okay. all you guys in vietnam, come on home. the times were changing so quickly in the 60s. and we didn t change them. we just reflected them. i can t hear you. what are you doing? i m getting ready to go college. cbs gave the smuthers brothers that show because they were clean cut folk satirists. you lower your voice. mom liked you best. dick smuthers will be a guest. be sure to watch or set your dvr
of congress but washington lawmakers did manage to pass less than 60 substantive bills, compared to 231 in 2012. but guess what? they did deliver for one very important constituency. and that would be the nation s comedy writers and late-night satirists. once again, the nation s loss was their gain. joining us now is kim serafin and toure, co host of the cycle. and i think i beat you in that game. you can have that one exciting moment in your life. congratulations. all right. so toure, we ve got saturday night live taking on two of the year s biggest political stories. let s take a listen. we are so shut down getting so shut down yeah da, da, da ripping gop
he wrote in to say he has been a fan even longer than i have. but to keep new generations of fans laughing and subscribing, the magazine has had to try to grow with them. what do you have to do to piss somebody off? politicians especially have gotten very smart at trying to co-op satirists. they will do things that will make them part of the joke. it has gotten much, much harder to spoof people as a result of that. mad dabbleed in television twice. attempted an ill-fated film called up the academy. it is in the only harder to spoof people but harder to hold the attention of an increasingly distracted audience. much more visually driven with bullet-pointed jokes than a long, elaborate parody that could be brilliant but would probably lose a lot of the