Weekend Update with Dennis Miller

Pretty solid night for Dennis Miller thanks to some pre-election weekend jokes about the candidates, as well as the continuation of the trapped whales saga. I also found it amusing that one of the bands listed in the joke about MTV admitting they were all the same group was the Canadian metal band Helix. Al Franken drops by to show off his ability to draw a freehand map of the lower 48 states from memory, while using the analysis of various celebrities to come up with a potential scenario where Dukakis could narrowly win the electoral college. The expertise allegedly coming from individuals like Justine Bateman and Lisa Bonet was amusing, but watching Franken draw the map is pretty mesmerizing in itself. A. Whitney Brown has thoughts on the uninspiring candidates in Tuesday’s race, decreasing voter turnout, and the questionability of having New Hampshire having the first primary. The usual quality stuff from Brown here, with a particularly interesting line about how “there will come a time when Jimmy Carter looks like a great president”.

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