Franken Spells Funny

By Kathleen Hunter | July 16, 2009 1:04 PM | | Comments (0)

Al Franken seems to evoke laughter when he's not even trying, or not trying too hard.

People expect the former comedian to crack a joke and that was certainly the case today when the newly minted Minnesota Democratic senator took his second turn questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as the newest member of the Judiciary Committee.

At one point, Sotomayor asked Franken if she could tell him a story after Franken had thrown her a softball asking why she wanted to be a Supreme Court justice. Franken responded, "I would love it."

The audience laughed.

Franken then said he would cut his questioning short since Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., had agreed to a third round of questioning.

"I thought I was going to be the only thing between you and the door," Franken quipped. The audience laughed again, though this time Franken may have been asking for it.

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