Al sicherman biography
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A very funny guy died Sunday.
Most Minnesotans knew Al Sicherman from his long run as a humorist and food writer for the Star Tribune. I was at the paper for many of those years, but I cannot improve upon the excellent obituary the Star Tribune published yesterday.
But after he retired from the Star Tribune, Al had another career, at MinnPost — both on our pages and in our annual satirical show, MinnRoast.
When we launched MinnPost in 2007, Al agreed to write a column called Verse or Worse, in which he would propose a topic on which readers needed to expound either in verse or prose.
Topics ranged from why Jesse Ventura should run for president to how you can tell that your doctor is dead.
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Al would pick five finalists, and readers would vote for the winner, who got a Verse or Worse T-shirt. With Al’s gorgeous face on it.
Later, he switched to writing occasional humorous essays. In 2011, he wrote one about turning 70, which closed this way:
Turn around and you’re tiny