RADIO BILLBOARDS

While most of my time on staff at The Al Franken Show has been dedicated to booking guests, researching current events and briefing the hosts, I've also had a chance to do some writing. At the top of every hour, Al reads a brief, punchy preview called a "billboard." Here are three I wrote.

SAMPLES

July 16, 2004

The Al Franken Show is back. This hour, Joe Conason pulls back the government's curtain of secrecy — and finds Republican operatives getting ready to throw a monkey wrench into the sacred machine of democracy. Nobody panic — we're here to keep the gears turning. Hour three starts now.

July 22, 2004

It's Thursday, July 22, and "The Air Franken Show" is airborne and at full throttle. It's a target-rich environment out there, and we're packing a red-hot arsenal of weasel-seeking facts. On board: Senator Jay Rockefeller, New Yorker writer Hendrik Hertzberg, and Ginny Schrader, a Democrat running for office in Pennsylvania and... hey, who let John Stossel on board?! Give me a break. And, as always, my co-pilot is Katherine Lanpher. Prepare for take off and cross check. The Al Franken Show starts right now.

July 23, 2004

Avast ye scurvy scalawags! This is Captain Jewbeard, hailing you from deck of The Al Franken Show. A lot of people have said to me that pirates won't make a difference in the upcoming election. But that was all before today. Manning the guns are the roughest ruffians to ever board a ship: Joe Conason, Howard Fineman, and Christy Harvey. And we're sailing with the liberal godfather of the political high seas... George McGovern. Batten down your hatches, mateys, because The Al Franken Show's first-ever Pirate Day starts... [cannon sound effect] now.