Al Franken traded comedic absurdity at SNL for a Senate job and found political absurdity instead, most recently in the Neil Gorsuch hearing and a certain cloying coworker, Ted Cruz. There's a whole chapter in Franken's new book dedicated to ripping on Cruz, as Samantha Bee pointed out during a sit-down on Full Frontal last night. "Don't you think you were a little hard on Ted Cruz?" she asked him. Bee, of course, has a well-documented voracity for Cruz mimicry, and she was loath to see him drop out of the nomination race a year ago. Anyway, the segment rapidly devolved into two minutes of Bee and Franken trading their finest, most wicked Cruz insults:

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That also gave Cruz something new to whine about on Twitter:

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Covfefe? Hard to say, but I hear Al Franken's new book is full of it ;) https://t.co/o6BSSUyKE4 — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 31, 2017

Bee also weighed in on "covfefe," the word that would apparently never die, and Trump's Eurotrip, drawing comparisons to Mad Max: Fury Road. As history does nothing but repeat itself, Bee predicted that soon, we will be partnering with Russia to defeat Germany.

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