Al Franken worked with former “Saturday Night Live” colleague Chris Rock to help punch up a new script that Rock wrote, the former senator told TheWrap on Monday.
Franken, the subject of a recent New Yorker profile that cast doubt on the sexual harassment accusations that led to his resignation from the U.S. Senate in December 2017, described his involvement during a short phone call on Monday.
“We did what was called a table read and it was a lot of fun. Like eight comedy writers, kind of talking about and punching up a script that he and a couple of other guys wrote,” Franken said.
Asked if he was interested in a return to the entertainment industry, Franken said he had to cut the conversation short: “I’m in a studio now doing a podcast.”
Franken declined to name the project that he worked on with Rock, whose current projects include a reboot of the horror franchise “Saw” that Rock is starring in as well as producing and co-writing. It is common for Hollywood scripts to go through a punch-up process with joke writers who are sometimes uncredited.
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