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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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