Al Franken
Acting
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.
TV Shows(30)
The Residence
Aaron Filkins
2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Self
2025
Biography: Comedy Icons
Self
2019
Minnesota Experience
Self (archive footage)
2018
I Love You, America
Self
2017
The History of Comedy
Self
2017
Chelsea
Self
2016
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
Conan
Self
2010
Overheard with Evan Smith
Self
2010
The Colbert Report
Self
2005
Tanner on Tanner
Self
2004
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self - Guest
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Clerks
Mayor McCheese (voice)
2000
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Self
1999
From the Earth to the Moon
Jerome Weisner
1998
LateLine
Al Freundlich
1998
The View
Self
1997
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self
1996
3rd Rock from the Sun
Frank Gansmiller
1996
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Al (voice)
1995
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Politically Incorrect
Self
1993
The Larry Sanders Show
Al Franken
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
Saturday Night Live
McSooshi Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1975
Movies(38)
Lorne
Self
2026
Downey Wrote That
Self
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self - SNL Writer / Self - Cast Member / Self - Producer 1975 - 1995
2025
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
Gramps (voice)
2024
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Self
2019
Inside the Russian Info War Machine
Self
2018
Hot Grease
Self
2017
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Self
2017
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: The Constitution
2017
Long Strange Trip
Self
2017
Hot Coffee
Self
2011
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Self
2008
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers
Self
2008
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Self
2007
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Self
2007
Al Franken: God Spoke
Self
2006
Earth to America
Self
2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Self
2005
Left of the Dial
Self
2005
Wellstone!
Self
2004
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
Self
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
TV Commentator
2004
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Self (archive footage)
2004
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase
Self - Roaster
2002
Harvard Man
Al Franken
2001
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self
1999
The Definite Maybe
Vagabond
1997
Stuart Saves His Family
Stuart Smalley
1995
When a Man Loves a Woman
Co-Pilot (uncredited)
1994
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Self
1989
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
The Awesome Pair
1988
One More Saturday Night
Paul Flum
1986
Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter
1985
Franken and Davis at Stockton State
Himself
1983
Trading Places
Baggage Handler #1
1983
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
1981
Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead
Self - Host
1981
Tunnel Vision
Al
1976