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Dec 7, 2017 · Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, said on Thursday that he plans to resign “in the coming weeks” amid mounting accusations of sexual harassment against him. Mr. Franken, 66, is from ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Al Franken performed at Q.E.D. in Astoria, Queens, this month. He’s embarking on a national stand-up tour. Todd Heisler/The New York Times. By Jason Zinoman. Sept. 29, 2021. It was a fairly ...
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951) is a former United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party. Before he was a Senator, Franken was a writer and actor on Saturday Night Live.
3 Videos. 38 Photos. Al Franken is best known for nearly two decades of work on Saturday Night Live (1975) . During that time he wrote, performed in and produced hundreds of sketches, including "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley" and "The Final Days," a piece about the last days of Richard Nixon 's presidency.
As far as I know, I’m the only U.S. Senator who was also one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, where I worked for fifteen seasons. I’ve won five Emmys for writing and producing – even though Wikipedia says I won three. Wikipedia is wrong. I’m also the author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers, including Rush Limbaugh ...
Dec 7, 2017 · Once a star of “Saturday Night Live,” Al Franken took his liberal politics to Washington in 2008 when he narrowly won a Minnesota Senate seat. He said he would resign over allegations of ...
Al Franken is a Jewish American politician, comedian, writer, and liberal political commentator. Franken (born May 21, 1951) was born in New York and moved to Minnesota with his family when he was four. Franken was raised in a Reform Jewish home by his mother Phoebe Kunst, a homemaker, and his father Joseph Franken, a printing salesman.
