“Hi, my name is Arlen Specter and I’ll be here all week. Tell your friends!”
Well not quite…but he DID do a real, laugh getting set at the Improv. Don’t believe it? JUST WATCH THIS:
Of course politicians of both parties do comedy all the time. It’s called “campaign promises.”
FOOTNOTE: It’s great to see a politico have fun (particularly someone his age) and be so well-received by an audience much younger than him. Expect some news articles and blog posts to express (trumped up) outrage that he dare make these jokes and appear in such an undignified place as a comedy club (as if Congress these days is dignified..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.