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Name: AL FRANKEN
Birth: 21 May 1951
Profession: Comedian
Birth Place: New York, New York
Known as: Author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Death: --
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Summary:
Al Franken is an Emmy-winning comedy writer and actor who found new fame in the late 1990s as the left-leaning political satirist. He's the author of several books, including Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot and Other Observations (1996) and Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (2003). After graduating from Harvard, Franken started his comedy career (with partner Tom Davis) in New York in the early 1970s. He was a writer and performer for the TV comedy show Saturday Night Live (1975-80, 1985-95), best known for his character Stuart Smalley, a self-help expert whose signature line was "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!" In 1988 Franken worked for CNN, doing commentary for the Democratic National Convention. He teamed with columnist Arianna Huffington in 1992 and 1996 to cover the presidential elections for cable television's Comedy Central, and had great success with his 1996 book poking fun at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. In 2003 he was a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he researched and wrote the best-selling Lies, a satirical attack on conservative media and U. S. president George W. Bush.
Other SNL alums include John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Michael O'Donoghue.
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