Al Franken used Tuesday his signature brand of humor “The Daily Show” We are going to highlight a disturbing development in global warming, after the United Nations published a report that stated the issue was urgently more serious than originally thought.
Franken was an actor and screenwriter. “Saturday Night Live” U.S. star Sen. from Minnesota called the situation “the story today that makes all the other stories kind of pointless.”
“According to the U.N, we’re all going to die,” Franken deadpanned.
“The Daily Show” CNN then broadcast clips of newscasts that had covered the report on Tuesday earlier, and CNN was credited with calling it. “a dire warning about the state of the planet” and ABC’s “Good Morning America” breaking down the facts of the matter, including that “every country in the world has to reduce emissions at warp speed to try to curb the warming of our planet.
“Wow, that’s awful,” Franken responded in the second day of his guest hosting on Comedy Central. “But I guess a shoutout to my baby boomers — feels like we got the last chopper out of Saigon, doesn’t it. And that’s a reference we baby boomers understand.”
This joke refers, naturally, to the U.S. final withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 following a decade-long war.
“Now, part of the problem is, the U.N.’s expectations of collective action,” Franken said. “It’s just easy to sherk our part when everybody has to chip in. It is best to contact each person individually.
“The next U.N. report shouldn’t say, ‘We all must lower our emissions.’ It should say, ‘Gary stop driving your car so much. You don’t need to visit your wife’s grave every day. She’s not keeping track.”