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.

Filmography

• The Residence — Aaron Filkins
• 2024Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue — Gramps (voice), Executive Producer
• 2004The Manchurian Candidate — TV Commentator
• 2001Harvard Man — Al Franken
• Clerks — Mayor McCheese (voice)
• From the Earth to the Moon — Jerome Weisner
• LateLine — Al Freundlich, Producer, Writer, Creator
• 1998Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman — Writer
• 1997The Definite Maybe — Vagabond
• 3rd Rock from the Sun — Frank Gansmiller
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist — Al (voice), Additional Writing
• 1995Stuart Saves His Family — Stuart Smalley, Screenplay, Novel
• 1994When a Man Loves a Woman — Co-Pilot (uncredited), Executive Producer, Screenplay
• Politically Incorrect — Self, Writer
• The Larry Sanders Show — Al Franken
• 1989Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary — Self, Writer
• 1988Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel — The Awesome Pair
• 1986One More Saturday Night — Paul Flum, Writer
• 1985Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter
• 1983Franken and Davis at Stockton State — Himself, Writer
• 1983The Coneheads — Writer
• 1983Trading Places — Baggage Handler #1
• 1981Steve Martin's Best Show Ever — Writer
• 1979Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda — Writer
• 1977The Paul Simon Special — Writer
• 1976Tunnel Vision — Al
• Saturday Night Live — McSooshi Announcer (voice) (uncredited), Self - Various Characters, Self - Special Guest, Judge / Cook (uncredited), Ron Ziegler (voice) (uncredited), Crowd Member (uncredited), Phone Technician (uncredited), Pong Player (voice) (uncredited), Mourner (uncredited), Pong Player #1 (voice) (uncredited), Pong Player on the Right (voice) (uncredited), Guest (uncredited), Player on the Left (voice) (uncredited), Bee / Pong Player (uncredited), Dancer (uncredited), Lab Technician (uncredited), Wanderer (uncredited), Voice of Senator / Dr. Alan S. Franken (uncredited), Self (uncredited), Various / Football Player (uncredited), George Jessel / Various (uncredited), Patron (uncredited), Patron / Extra (uncredited), Mr. Arkansas, Passenger (uncredited), Patron / Jewish Warrior (uncredited), Ray Floyd (uncredited), Lester Crackfield (uncredited), Rod M (uncredited), Pete Tagliani, Guard (uncredited), Buzz (uncredited), Customer (uncredited), René (uncredited), Student (uncredited), Two Mile Player (uncredited), Shipmate (uncredited), Cardinal / Brad Gunderic / Soldier (uncredited), Camper (uncredited), Caveman / Motorist (uncredited), Pinklisting Narrator (voice) (uncredited), The Life of Vlad the Impalere announcer (voice) (uncredited), Russian Translator (voice) (uncredited), Narrator: Big Ball of Sports (voice) (uncredited), Bartender (uncredited), Henry Kissinger (uncredited), ICM Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Various / Announcer (uncredited), Psycho Mutant (uncredited), Sen. Paul Simon (uncredited), Self / Pat Robinson (uncredited), Stuart Smalley (uncredited), Producer, Writer

Appearances as themselves (46)

• 2026Lorne — Self
• 2025Downey Wrote That — Self
• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self - SNL Writer / Self - Cast Member / Self - Producer 1975 - 1995
• SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self
• 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
• Biography: Comedy Icons — Self
• 2019Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh — Self
• 2018Inside the Russian Info War Machine — Self
• Minnesota Experience — Self (archive footage)
• 2017An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power — Self
• 2017Hot Grease — Self
• I Love You, America — Self
• 2017Long Strange Trip — Self
• The History of Comedy — Self
• 2017The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: The Constitution
• Chelsea — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2011Hot Coffee — Self
• Conan — Self
• Overheard with Evan Smith — Self
• 2008Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary — Self
• 2008Lord, Save Us from Your Followers — Self
• 2007Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater — Self
• 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation — Self
• 2006Al Franken: God Spoke — Self
• 2005Earth to America — Self
• 2005Left of the Dial — Self
• 2005Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found — Self
• The Colbert Report — Self
• 2004Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable — Self
• 2004Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism — Self (archive footage)
• Tanner on Tanner — Self
• 2004Wellstone! — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest, Self - Guest Host
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self - Guest
• 2002The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase — Self - Roaster
• 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self, Self - Guest Host
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
• 1981Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead — Self - Host