Al Franken breaks down the Trump Tulsa Totter

[JHB]

Link to tweet

Al Franken
@alfranken
6,200 people at Trump rally in Tulsa. Acts that had bigger crowds at the same venue in 2019:

- Sha Na Na
- The Pips (w/o Gladys Knight)
- Loverboy
- John Tesh
- The West Virginia Touring Company of La Traviata

[Cha]

1. TY Al Franken!

[leftieNanner]

2. This is perfect!

Pink tweeted yesterday that she sold out that arena in about 5 minutes, but she's PINK, for heaven's sakes!

These aren't exactly, ahem, top line acts.

John Tesh? OMG!

[sheshe2]

11. "These aren't exactly, ahem, top line acts."

Nor is Donnie...

[MyOwnPeace]

39. Oh, sheshe2.............

you DO have the RIGHT words!

[sheshe2]

40. :)

Hey, MyOwnPeace.

[coti]

42. Tesh Tops Trump in Tulsa

[saidsimplesimon]

55. Thank you, Pink and leftieN

"she's Pink" and an awesome lady of music, imo.

[leftieNanner]

56. That she is

[MontanaMama]

3. All of them has beens

I guess that’s his point.

[edhopper]

7. From the Richard Pryor Show

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. They still sounded good, even if not the same without Gladys Knight.

[tulipsandroses]

4. The Pips without Gladys??? OMG, Gladys is the group. More people wanted to hear her back up singers?

LOL!

[BootinUp]

5. Trump will love this. Lol.

[fierywoman]

6. La Traviata got a bigger crowd? Thanks for the belly-LOL!!!

[Captain Zero]

23. Really. West Virginia has opera? And it tours?

Nt

[fierywoman]

29. Even funnier! (OK I'm a snob, having played opera in Florence, Venice and LA) --

West Virginia opera got more people than Trump ?!?!?!?

[Marthe48]

37. Lots of serious music in WV

My husband and his large family was from there, and we live in Ohio, just across the Ohio River. In the 1990's Gaston Caperton was governor of WV and was married to Rachel Worby, who conducted the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and really elevated classical music or awareness of it in WV. I have friends who attend a live music performance every month in Parkersburg, probably on hold for now.

Even though I live well away from major cities, I have never felt isolated from the fine arts in this area.

[LisaM]

48. I was kind of intrigued.by that.

I.do.associate West Virginia with a.muaical tradition.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. Pink tweeted that her concert at the arena sold out in five minutes.

And that's a paid event, not a free one!

[liberalla]

9. :snicker:

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[gratuitous]

12. Trump is obsessed with ratings and crowd sizes

This won't set well with the big baby. Loverboy, fer crissakes?!

[Dem2theMax]

13. John Tesh?

If John Tesh can pull a bigger crowd, Trump is toast.

[MrModerate]

14. Trump is less popular than opera? He's toast. n/t

[niyad]

30. To be fair, I remember reading years ago that more people attend the opera in the US each year than

Attend pro football games.also, that one year, scalped tickets for an Andrew Lloyd Weber Broadway premiere were much more expensive than scalped super bowl tickets.

[MrModerate]

49. I don't buy the opera/NFL comparison...

Because there's about 35 million NFL attendees a year, and if you figure that the average theatre in which you'd produce opera has about 500 seats, you'd need over 70,000 (expensive, labor-intensive) opera productions to equal the NFL.

So I don't think so.

And scalped Superbowl tickets have topped out a $60,000 each, a price I don't think even Hamilton can get close to.

(Not to mention that Webber's work is musical theatre rather than opera, and so an entirely different kettle of fish.)

[AllyCat]

15. And people gladly PAID $ to see them.

[erronis]

27. And team trump actually PAID most of the attendees to his "really"

What people will do for $50 or a slice of pizza or a chance to catch a virus.

Or a chance to see their messiah before he is deep-sixed.

[AllyCat]

43. Lol!! For most of it anyway.

[malaise]

16. The Pips without Gladys Knight

Al is the best

[Harker]

22. I should've been a Pip...

Woo! Woo!

[NoMoreRepugs]

18. There were more raccoons scavenging that nite at the "overflow area"

than magats that stood around there for 5-10 minutes.

[keithbvadu2]

19. "We've never had an empty seat. And we certainly won't in Oklahoma."

"We've never had an empty seat.
And we certainly won't in Oklahoma."

The silver lining is at least Trump got to upstage Clint Eastwood.
Clint only spoke to one empty chair. (Got that from another poster)

Link to tweet

[malaise]

24. That's why we're all laughing

It's all ridicule from here

[True Blue American]

26. :)

[klook]

34. Trump has not only the Silent Majority

but also the Invisible Majority!

[Marthe48]

38. :)

nt

[Beartracks]

50. "We've never had an empty seat"

I don't think that was true even before Tulsa, was it?

Why can't his fans see that Trump is just a huckster? His schtick is like the robo-calls those same voters probably complain about during dinner.

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[ClusterFreak]

20. And Trump's tickets were FREE for f*ck sakes lol

[IronLionZion]

21. And some of them must have gone home with COVID

like a special souvenir to always remember this experience

[keithbvadu2]

25. Trump sent COVID there early with his advance team.

[IronLionZion]

31. Make Pandemics Great Again

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Loverboy is a 41 year old CANADIAN rock band. Canadians are more popular than American prez. nt

[SunSeeker]

35. And Loverboy charged for admission, unlike Shitler!

[klook]

32. LOL, that is a scream!

JohnTesh?!?!


(I just posted the same Tweet and then saw your thread. Al Franken is a national treasure.)

[SunSeeker]

33. If you're bested by John Tesh, who CHARGED for admission unlike you...Just.Go.Home.

[Larry Moecurley]

36. The Burn is Strong with This One! How Strong, You Ask?

[warmfeet]

41. It might be the time to end this.

I, very much, want the chance to vote.

[OnlinePoker]

44. I just looked up on a concert finder app

None of these acts performed in the BOK Center since at least 2017. Me thinks Al Franken was being facetious.

[JenniferJuniper]

45. Hey, don't knock Sha Na Na..

the Dead Milkmen once said they were the greatest band of all time.

[TexasBushwhacker]

46. And those people PAID to see those acts

Trump's rally was free

[soldierant]

47. If WV Opera wants to do a Verdi opera that's foolproof,

I recommend "MacBath." If the effects are a problem do it unstaged. It's that well written. It will still work - even better than Shakespeare.

La Traviata can be made or broken by the blend the soprano and the tenor can get going in Act II, and that's a lot harder that you think it is if you've only ever heard A listers singing it.

[TrogL]

51. La Traviata is not an opera I'd show up for and I love opera

2nd rate music, incomprehensible plot

[Straw Man]

52. To be fair ...

... there was no COVID in 2019. Some Trump cultists may risk death to see their Dear Leader in the (ample) flesh, but somehow I doubt that even the most rabid Loverboy fans would do the same.

[JHB]

53. To be fair...

...Donnie burned through his entire lifetime allotment of "to be fair" sometime back during the Reagan administration.

[Straw Man]

57. To be fairer ...

... he never had any to begin with.

[Crowman2009]

54. The 2003 Detroit Tigers had the worst record in American League history...

....and had 10k more per game than at Drumpf's rally.

There are minor-league teams with better per game attendance as well.