As he came bounding onto the stage last month in Chicago, Al Franken offered up his best Mick Jagger, strutting and preening to the Rolling Stones as “Start Me Up” blasted throughout City Winery. It ...

After skewering the right-wing media in his 2003 book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, comedian and satirist Al Franken returns with the authoritatively-titled The Truth (With Jokes), an ...

For the former Saturday Night Live comedian, running for a Minnesota Senate seat is no joke. But will his opponents get the last laugh? 'Vote For Me, Al Franken' Former Minnesota Governor Jesse ...

Al Franken announced that he will run for the Senate in 2008, making it clear that the comedian and author of “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot” wants to be taken seriously as a political figure.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - He may be good enough and smart enough -- but does he have enough votes? Long after most races had been decided, the bid of a former "Saturday Night Live" comedian to ...

Al Franken finally wants you to take him seriously. Having been a comedian, a best-selling author of satirical polemics, a writer and performer for Saturday Night Live and the creator of faux ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Al Franken won a resounding endorsement for the U.S. Senate on Saturday from Minnesota Democrats, quickly dispatching with concerns about jokes that offended some and promising a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Al Franken announced Wednesday that he will run for the Senate in 2008, making it clear that the comedian and author of “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot” wants to be taken ...

When comedian Sarah Silverman and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., took the stage together Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the crowd was expecting laughs, but probably not ...

In Illinois a week before the 2000 election, Franken joked that “It would be much easier for me as a comedian to have Bush as President. It would be a gold mine.” Well, Bush’s presidency did change ...