Al Franken
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
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. A noted
political commentator and satirist, Franken also produced and starred
in the NBC sitcom LateLine (1998)
and wrote four books about politics, including "Rush Limbaugh is a Big
Fat Idiot." A graduate of Harvard, Franken lives in Minnesota with his
wife and two kids. In 2008, Franken ran for the Senate as a Democrat,
and won after an extremely close race.
