Al Franken wrote the skit at the heart of Leeann Tweeden’s story in 2003 (or even earlier). Franken reported on that tour in Mother Jones, in full here:
www.motherjones.com/…
The skit then included the following exchange:
KARRI: [Reading script.] Lance, I’m wearing this negligee because
I want tonight to be very special. I want to give myself to you completely. Now kiss me! [Al
grabs Karri and kisses her. Karri fights him off.]
KARRI: Now, wait a minute! You just wrote this so you could kiss me! If
I was gonna kiss anybody, it’d be a real soldier. Like one of these brave men…or women. Who
wants to help me out? You, soldier. [Karri points to soldier in front.]
AL: Okay. I guess we are here to entertain the troops.
[The soldier comes up. Al hands him script. Improvise name, rank, where
you from, etc. Karri and the soldier do the script….]
KARRI: Lieutenant Hardgrove, this is JAG OPS. It’s all business here.
SOLDIER: Is it? Then why are you wearing that negligee?
KARRI: Lance, I’m wearing this negligee because I want tonight to be
very special. I want to give myself to you completely. Now kiss me! [They kiss a long, deep kiss. Cheers,
etc. After kiss…]
The skit set-up a kiss for a volunteer soldier, a trope used on these tours since at least the days of Bob Hope.
Now compare that to Ms. Tweeden’s story from the 2006 tour:
When I saw the script, Franken had written a moment when his character comes at me for a ‘kiss’. I suspected what he was after, but I figured I could turn my head at the last minute, or put my hand over his mouth, to get more laughs from the crowd.
www.kabc.com/…
That simply doesn’t add up. Her suspicion is literally written into the script.
There is even video of the 2003 rendition with Karri Turner playing the role Ms. Tweeden would play 3 years later (please note that the caption on this Tweet is incorrect):
Note again: That is Karri Turner, not Leeann Tweeden. But the supposed backstage interaction was written into the script 3 years before Ms. Tweeden’s tour.