If the phrase "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me" sounds familiar, you've likely seen Saturday Night Live's classic recurring sketches starring Stuart Smalley, host of ...

His best-known character was Stuart Smalley, a self-help/group therapy addict with low self-esteem who summed up the 1980s’ cultural obsession with psychobabble. Smalley was based on Franken’s ...

Saturday Night Live has a long history of creating characters that went on to become pop culture icons. If they became big enough, some of them were even turned into feature films. The results of ...

DFL candidate for U.S. Senate Al Franken didn't exactly leave 'em laughing in Northfield. This month Franken was at Carleton College, where the late Paul Wellstone was a professor, for a student rally ...

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 ...

“I’m an aspiring comedy writer,” gushed Atlanta resident Jeff Auerbach upon meeting Franken at a J Street reception Wednesday. Franken briefly shook Auerbach’s hand and quickly entered the reception ...