Al Franken
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 69
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Conan
2010
Saturday Night Live
1975
The View
1997
The Colbert Report
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
Chelsea
2016
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
The Residence
2025
Trading Places
1983
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
Clerks
2000
Lorne
2026
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
The History of Comedy
2017
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
I Love You, America
2017
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
Minnesota Experience
2018
LateLine
1998
Overheard with Evan Smith
2010
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024
Politically Incorrect
1993
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Tanner on Tanner
2004
Harvard Man
2001
Biography: Comedy Icons
2019
Hot Grease
2017
Wellstone!
2004
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
The Words That Built America
2017
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
1981
Downey Wrote That
2025
Stuart Saves His Family
1995
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
Earth to America
2005
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
2004
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
Hot Coffee
2011
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019
One More Saturday Night
1986
Tunnel Vision
1976
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007
Al Franken: God Spoke
2006
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase
2002
Long Strange Trip
2017
Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead
1981
The Definite Maybe
1997
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers
2008
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004
Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter
1985
Left of the Dial
2005
Franken and Davis at Stockton State
1983
Inside the Russian Info War Machine
2018
On the crew 15
Saturday Night Live
1975
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
LateLine
1998
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024
Politically Incorrect
1993
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
1981
Stuart Saves His Family
1995
Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda
1979
One More Saturday Night
1986
The Paul Simon Special
1977
The Coneheads
1983
Franken and Davis at Stockton State
1983