Comedian and former U.S. Senator Al Franken isn't the first Saturday Night Live alum to win the Ernie Kovacs Award, an honor bestowed by the Video Association of Dallas for pioneering work in television.
U.S. Senator and comedian Al Franken, left, accepts the Ernie Kovacs Award from VideoFest founder Bart Weiss on Thursday at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff.alum to win the Ernie Kovacs Award, an honor bestowed by the Video Association of Dallas for pioneering work in television. He may, however, be one of the most influential members of the show's long roster of creative names — and in ways that went far beyond the boundaries of our screens.
Franken says he came up with the character while attending AL-ANON meetings with his wife, who was recovering from alcohol addiction, and hearing speakers using the program's steps and cliches to get through life. One of the members who sounds similar to the character showed him,"Oh, I see. You can learn stuff from anybody," Franken says.
Smalley often coached some of the show's famous hosts. One of his most famous Smalley moments had NBA superstar Michael Jordan telling himself,"I don't have to dribble the ball fast or throw the ball into the basket." "I saw that Limbaugh was dangerous and he was dividing people," Franken says."The Fairness Doctrine went away and he took advantage of it and he lied all the time. He was sexist, homophobic and racist.", a play off former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's news showLies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right,
Franken became close friends with and an admirer of Wellstone during his 2002 campaign, which ended tragically just 11 days before election day, when died in a plane crash with his wife and daughter, two aides and two pilots. Wellstone's Republican opponent, Coleman, was later defeated by Franken in 2008.'To be blunt, I'm a 99% improvement over Paul Wellstone,'" Franken says.
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