Let me start over.” And he does.įranken was born in 1951, 43 years after his father Joe Franken was born in New York City, and 27 years after his father’s father, Otto – a German immigrant – died from tuberculosis. I got that from my official Senate website. “I was born in the house I built myself with my own two hands,” proclaims Franken in the first sentence of his autobiography and immediately apologizes in the second paragraph: “I’m sorry. So, get ready to learn how an “SNL” writer became a United States Senator – and why other “SNL” writers tend not to do this. In “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate” – his outrageously funny 2017 political tractate masked as a memoir – the award-winning comedian allows us a peek behind the scenes of one of the greatest TV shows of all time and reveals why he decided to run for office – twice. In 2008, he became senator of Minnesota by just 312 votes. American comedian Al Franken made his name as a comedy writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1980s, and then he began to publish satirical political books.
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