Al Franken
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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
Credits
Trading Places (1983)
as Baggage Handler #1
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
as TV Commentator
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
as Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Lorne (2026)
as Self
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025)
as Self
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue (2024)
as Gramps (voice)
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
as Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
as Self - SNL Writer / Self - Cast Member / Self - Producer 1975 - 1995
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as Self
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (1989)
as Self
The Words That Built America (2017)
as Self - Reader: The Constitution
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found (2005)
as Self
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
as Stuart Smalley
Harvard Man (2001)
as Al Franken
Hot Grease (2017)
as Self
Earth to America (2005)
as Self
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh (2019)
as Self
One More Saturday Night (1986)
as Paul Flum
Downey Wrote That (2025)
as Self
Wellstone! (2004)
as Self
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007)
as Self
Tunnel Vision (1976)
as Al
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase (2002)
as Self - Roaster
The Definite Maybe (1997)
as Vagabond
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)
as Self
Hot Coffee (2011)
as Self
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel (1988)
as The Awesome Pair
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981)
Actor
Long Strange Trip (2017)
as Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary (2008)
as Self
Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead (1981)
as Self - Host
Left of the Dial (2005)
as Self
Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter (1985)
Actor
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers (2008)
as Self
Inside the Russian Info War Machine (2018)
as Self
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater (2007)
as Self
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable (2004)
as Self
Franken and Davis at Stockton State (1983)
as Himself