Al Franken's having a blast on his show...
Nov. 2nd, 2004 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearhe just got off the phone with a news analyst friend at CBS who has exit poll data...and refused to give it out.
"yes, I have exit poll information"
"and what can you conclude from it so far?"
silence...
"well, can you give us a hint as to how things are going?"
"no."
"oh."
(later...)
"what I can tell you is that this year seems to have record turnout."
"so, this is good for Kerry?"
"no."
"oh. so its good for Bush?"
"no."
--
basically, it ended up an expanded version of the Python election night line "well, we have just received the results from Louton, but what that is, I'm not going to tell you."
the crowd (a live audience in a Cambridge, MA hotel) loved it.
"yes, I have exit poll information"
"and what can you conclude from it so far?"
silence...
"well, can you give us a hint as to how things are going?"
"no."
"oh."
(later...)
"what I can tell you is that this year seems to have record turnout."
"so, this is good for Kerry?"
"no."
"oh. so its good for Bush?"
"no."
--
basically, it ended up an expanded version of the Python election night line "well, we have just received the results from Louton, but what that is, I'm not going to tell you."
the crowd (a live audience in a Cambridge, MA hotel) loved it.
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Date: 2004-11-02 11:04 am (UTC)