Al Franken
Sign in to saveAmerican comedian and politician (born 1951)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- May 21, 1951
- Works
- 39
Top works
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
- Oh, the Things I Know!
- Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
- Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
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Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Alan Stuart Franken is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Known for
- Lorne — Self2026
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self - SNL Writer / Self - Cast Member / Self - Producer 1975 - 19952025
- Downey Wrote That — Self2025
- The Residence — Aaron Filkins2025
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self2025
- Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue — Gramps (voice)2024
- Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh — Self2019
- Biography: Comedy Icons — Self2019
- Inside the Russian Info War Machine — Self2018
- Minnesota Experience — Self (archive footage)2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,230
- Total plays
- 84,002
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Senator Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American politician, comedian, author, political commentator, and radio host, noted for his liberal politics. Franken first achieved national prominence on Saturday Night Live as the writing and performing partner of Tom Davis. His more recent career accomplishments are more politically-oriented, authoring books such as Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, serving as host of the flagship program from Air America Radio <a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,320x
- Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 13,756x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,729x
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Quotes
- “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
- “When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”
- “The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”
- “What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu.”
- “Net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time. Today, a blog can load as fast as the Wall Street Journal — and, if the blog is good, it can get more traffic than any media conglomerate. But if bigger companies can pay for faster, priority Internet access, that blogger no longer has a shot. And these big companies know that when they pay for access, they win. They want preferred treatment on the Internet like the preferred treatment they get in the rest of their lives.”
- “I've said that net neutrality is the most important free speech issue of our time. It's true. If Republicans have their way, large corporations won't just have the loudest voices in the room. They'll be able to effectively silence everyone else. Every small business they'd prefer not to compete with. Every blogger who publishes something they don't like. We have to stop them.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Norm Coleman
- Succeeded by
- Tina Smith
- Born
- Alan Stuart Franken , ( 1951-05-21 ) May 21, 1951 (age 75) , New York City , New York , U.S.
- Party
- Democratic ( DFL )
- Spouse
- Franni Bryson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 )
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA )
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Key dates
- Born
- 21 May 1951
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- television producer
- Position held
- United States senator
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
Article
Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American politician, comedian, screenwriter, and actor who served from 2009 until his resignation in 2018 as a United States senator from Minnesota. A member of the Democratic Party, he worked as an entertainer, appearing on television and in films, before entering politics.
Franken first gained fame as a writer and performer on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he worked three stints. He first served as a writer for the show from 1975 to 1980, and returned from 1985 to 1995 as a writer and, briefly, a cast member. After his career in the entertainment industry, Franken became a liberal political activist, hosting a radio show and writing satirical books scrutinizing the American right.
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