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Al Franken
Age: 58
Height: 5' 6"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: May. 21st, 1951
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BIOGRAPHY: 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 M. Nixon's presidency. A noted political commentator and satirist, Franken also produced and starred in the NBC sitcom "LateLine" (1998) and wrote two 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.
TRIVIA:
- Elected to the United States Senate on November 4, 2008. The election was so close that there was a subsequent recount and legal battles, and he was not officially sworn in as a Senator until July 7, 2009.
- Left Saturday Night Live as a writer and featured cast member in 1995 after his request to be the Weekend Update news anchor was denied.
- His book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," provoked a lawsuit from Fox News claiming copyright infringement of the phrase "fair and balanced." It was quickly dismissed as being without merit and is credited with increasing sales of the book. In fact, the publisher moved up its release date to capitalize on the publicity the suit had brought.
- He received a perfect score (800) on the math section of the SAT.
- Has two children, daughter 'Thomasin Franken' (qv) and son 'Joe Franken' (qv).
- Graduated from Harvard University.
- Won the 2008 DFL endorsement for the Minnesota Senate seat against Norm Coleman. (June 7, 2008).
- Grammy award, Best Spoken Comedy Album, "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot," 1997.
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