[Vanity]Does anyone remember Al Franken on SNL?

2/9/2017 | Stormprepper

[ClearCase_guy]

Donald Trump is often referred to as a “TV Reality show star”

Al Franken is always referred to as “Senator”.

[Aevery_Freeman]

“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!”

A Trifecta of LIES!

[Mr. Douglas]

I enjoyed his sweatered metrosexual Character, “...and dog gone it, I LIKE myself.”

I suppose it struck a chord because of all the self improvement stuff I had been going through in the decade preceding it.

[MomwithHope]

I remember him from Trading Places. Not a character stretch for him. By the time he was on snl I had stopped watching.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

He did mostly writing.

[SandRat]

Vaguely

[21st Century Crusader]

I do remember him a a big fat idiot who dressed up in a baby’s diaper and a little bonnet atop his oversized, jowly head.
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!”

He has certainly reprised these characters and roles as senator from minnesotastan.

I guess snow isn't the only type of flake up there.

[Yo-Yo]

I remember Franken and Davis, and the 1980s was the "Al Franken Decade."

[Salgak]

He’s not good enough, he’s not smart enough, and, gosh darn it, people DON’T like him. . .

[ontap]

I remember he was the least talented of all!!!

[ontap]

I’d wager your boil was funnier!!!

[Salgak]

He’s not good enough, he’s not smart enough, and, gosh darn it, people DON’T like him. . .

[lakecumberlandvet]

“He played the fool - a part that comes naturally to him.”
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And playing a fool makes being a democratic senator come naturally also.

[shelterguy]

“””””I thought he claimed St. Louis Park as his hometown...”””

He left here 49 years ago.

[RetSignman]

[If Franken runs in 2020, Jill Stein should be his VP candidate...]

Frankenstein, great team that.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Franken and Davis"?

I don't remember that, but I'm sure he will run for President with Jill Stein on the Green Party ticket: Franken/Stein. That will certainly get the Millennial Snowflake vote.

[Verginius Rufus]

Better yet, a Franken and Davis ticket: Al Franken and Angela Davis.

[Political Junkie Too]

The only mildly amusing bit that Franken did was the "One Man Mobile Uplink."

The bit involved Franken (as a Wile E Coyote type) as an on-the-scene news reporter with a self-contained broadcasting unit. He would venture into dangerous areas and then be approached by baddies before the image goes to static.

One scene has him in an inner-city reporting on gangs when a bunch of mean-looking black dudes surround him. Another has him in Baghdad reporting on Tomahawk missile strikes when...

-PJ

[JimRed]

I don’t remember hearing the communist party reference, but then, I don’t remember a lot of things from that long ago.

[OldMissileer]

He was and is an idiot in spades and a testimonial to the cluelessness of those Minnesotans.

He actually lost the election. The Minnesota Democrat Party got a recount and "found" boxes of ballots in trunks of cars (IIRC). When the numbers were in Al's favor they stopped counting and declared him the winner.

OK. I know that the election was tight so there is some veracity to calling Minnesotans clueless but at that time a real majority of them were not, and no, I am not from Minnesota.