You know, I think this book actually deserved 5/5 stars. It's 400 pages of some really fun stuff.
So like, the tl;dr is that this is the memoir of the former Senator of Minnesota, and like he was one of the original comedy writers for SNL before this. The memoir is obviously therefore very funny, but moreover he spends his time talking about how he keeps getting in trouble during his campaigns and during office for making jokes.
Unlike other celebrities, I think comedians are actually well fit to be politicians because they are highly charismatic, and moreover humor is a very strong sign of intelligence (he was also a Harvard grad) in terms of being able to connect dots in unexpected ways. If anything, I'm surprised more politicians aren't comedians. I do think it's interesting how much flak he got for his past life as a comedian, because it he made a bunch of jokes that are, I guess you would say inappropriate. But also it just shows how American politics has shifted so much where all the things he got flak for, comedy writing wise, is really minimal compared to current discourse.
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