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Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951), Comedy writer, Political Satirist, and former Senator from Minnesota.
First known as a writer and bit player on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in the 1970s...then returning in the 1980s when [[Lorne Michaels]] decided to come back to save his show and again in the 1990s when the show was once again on top -- before its decline in the mid-1990s (Franken is the show's longest-running feature player as of 2011), in [[The Nineties]] he also became a bestselling author, with a strong liberal-political bent. He's also appeared in a few, largely forgettable, films, and hosted a Radio [[Talk Show]] show on Air America. He can draw an accurate map of the United States of America ''from memory''.
In 2008 he became the Junior Senator from Minnesota in a frighteningly protracted election. As senator he has proven extremely controversial due to the questionable nature of his victory, where several ballots for him (enough to swing the narrow vote) were found last minute in a trunk, and being the deciding vote for Obamacare, which further compounds anger over the first. In 2017 reporter Lesley Stahl revealed photograph of him groping her while she slept, accusing him (which he admitted to) sticking his tongue down her throat. He stoped being a senator in 2018.
Since the end of his political career he has made various media appearances.
▲His books include:
* ''I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!: Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley''
* ''[[Rush Limbaugh]] is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations''
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* ''Lies and [[That Liar Lies|the Lying Liars]] Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right''
* ''The Truth ([[Life Embellished|With Jokes]])''
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* [[Badass]]: He is a [[Quick Draw]] champion in real life. In ''Lies,'' he claims he is 3rd ranked in the US, in response to [[Bill O Reilly]] saying that in the [[Wild West]] he'd have shot Franken in a [[Showdown At High Noon]].▼
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: Franken describing the failures of the then-NBC president on ''SNL'''s "Weekend Update" segment, in what came to be known as the "Limo for the Lame-o" affair.
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: He had to disavow a great deal of his earlier, more ribald work to run for the Senate.
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* [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]]: when the [[Fox News Channel]] sued Franken over the ''Lying Liars etc.'' book, ''they'' didn't seem to think this was the case, but ''he'' did. They were both right.
* [[Of Corpse He's Alive]]: Briefly discussed in ''Lies''; one of Franken's friends believes that Strom Thurmond may have died as much as 3 years before the book was published, and the GOP is pursuing this strategy so the Democratic governor of South Carolina doesn't appoint a Democrat to fill the seat.
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* [[Strawman Political]]: Republican pundits tend to become this.
* [[Take That]]: "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" could be interpreted as this.
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