Tipper Gore described her family as a cross between Ozzie Osbourne and Ozzie and Harriet.

Following the talk, the Gores shook hands and autographed books for audience members who waited in a receiving line that snaked up four floors in Askwith Hall.

Chris Dietz, a resident of Hopkinton, Mass., said she had attended the event not for the book but instead for any political comments the former vice president might make.

She said she wanted to condole with Gore over the “raw deal” he got in the presidential election.

“Families need a friend in high places,” she said, “and I do not feel they have a friend in the White House right now.”

Students who attended the event said they enjoyed the couple’s joking repartee.

“He was not as stiff as I expected and there was a great dynamic between him and his wife,” said Patrick J. Toussaint ’06.