All praise be to St McTivo, which captured the return of AAR’s Al Franken Show to Sundance Channel. They have an attactive new set and the TV show broadcasts one hour of the 3-hour radio show, which works better for me. I can’t really listen at work without either disturbing my neighbors or slowing down my computer’s connection to certain systems (there’s a network problem somewhere, and the suspected culprit is either excessive bandwidth use by all of us, or a whole lot of spyware).

Anyway, it’s good to see Al and Katherine, and it gets me all het up over issues again. And it’s nice they got out of that “craphole” studio they were using before, but I suppose that means that all the the other AAR shows are still using the craphole, so not very diplomatic there, Al. Better send some pastries down to the troops.

Best moment in the first two days’ shows: when the “Sundance Channel” sign started to fall off the wall, right behind Al’s head, with a theatrical “THUNK” onto a railing. It was still held in place by a few wires, so no radio hosts were harmed in the course of this unscripted comedy bit.

The show is weeknights at 11:30 Eastern. Check local listings for times.