Fran Drescher in Talks With Fox, MSNBC

By GottaLaff

For those who haven't heard this one, it's time for a personal tie-in to this story, just for fun: I think I've told you that I used to work with Fran Drescher. No, not as actors. She had a line of homemade croutons, I used them in my gift baskets, a business I started during the WGA strike to keep us afloat. She was genuinely nice, generous, and easy to be with.

When she sat next to Mr. Laffy at the Cable Ace Awards one year, she sent her love (I didn't get to go. They wouldn't provide a seat for spouses.), which surprised me, because it had been at least a year since we'd spoken. I'm impressed if someone remembers me after a week, let alone a year.

Next thing I knew, she was all over the Tee Vee Machine supporting Hillary Clinton for president. That didn't end too well, but at least she wasn't a McCain spokesperson.

Look out! Here she comes again!

She's a Democrat with snap, but that doesn't mean Hollywood activist Fran Drescher—TV's The Nanny—isn't sweet on Fox News. In giving up her ambition to run for office in New York, she's opened negotiations with Fox for a talk show. And why not? she says with that trademark nasal giggle. "A lot of my fans watch Fox News," says Drescher, who is also talking to MSNBC. The possible topics the cancer survivor and State Department envoy wants to explore: politics, healthcare, world affairs.

Just because she's been so sweet, I'd tune in to Faux, but only once, if she landed a show there.