Sex and Drugs with Al Franken
Franken smokes a joint in a 1986 movie about a Minnesota town — which was filmed entirely in Illinois after Minnesota’s Film Board deemed its script too obscene. “I’m gonna get laid! I’m gonna get laid,” sings the future Senator. (“Hey, I can’t help it,” he explains. “I’m a lesbian trapped inside a man’s body.”) The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia produced some of the movie’s music.
And as a young man, future-Senator Al Franken was strip-searched for drugs at the Canadian border after his friend was caught with a hash pipe.
Franken also once asked future-President Ronald Reagan about decriminalizing marijuana. (At a 2004 book-signing, Bill Clinton greeted Franken by saying “”My hero’s here.”) And according to one biography, Franken’s mouth is so large, he can cram his entire fist into it. At the age of 25, Franken started his career playing himself in a parody of a spray-on deodorant commercial. Its slogan? “Don’t worry about your breath and your armpits, Al. It’s your personality that stinks…”