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Al Franken single-handedly smashed the stereotype of the humorless liberal. The former _Saturday Night Live_ writer became one of the most important voices of the American Left with his best-selling books, _Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot_ and _Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right_. With his new talk show on the liberal Air American Radio, he’s facing down his nemesis, Rush Limbaugh, on Limbaugh’s home turf. When _Heeb_ magazine caught up with Franken after his stand-up act at “Not Quite Kosher,” an event for Jewish college students in Pittsburgh, the comic-cum-pundit was itching to get serious.
