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.

Franken's talk-show broadcast puts area in a liberal light Comedian and liberal radio talk-show host Al Franken put Buffalo in the national spotlight Monday, while directing shards of humor at the ...

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 ...

Al Franken is best known as a funnyman, but this fall, he hopes to convince Minnesotans that he is dead serious about representing them in the U.S. Senate. One obstacle in Franken's path: his past.

MINNEAPOLIS — Comedian Al Franken announced yesterday that he will run for the Senate in 2008, seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. Mr. Franken’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...