Al Franken

Al Franken will be live at the Fremont Theater on Wednesday, September 28, 2022! This show has been reschuled to Sunday, December 11, 2022

♦ SHOW INFORMATION ♦

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Door Time- 7:00 pm

Show Time- 8:00 pm

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♦ ABOUT THE PERFORMER ♦

As far as anyone knows, Al Franken is the only U.S. Senator who was also one of the original writers forSaturdayNightLive. During his fifteen seasons with SNL, Franken won five Emmy’s for writing and producing. He’s also the author of four #1New York Times bestsellers, including Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them–A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, and Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. Franken served Minnesota in the Senate from 2009-2018, clobbering his first opponent, incumbent Senator Norm Coleman,by 312 votes. He won his second election by well over 200,000 votes. Franken served on the Judiciary, Energy, Indian Affairs, and HELP (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committees where heroutinely embarrassed badly prepared witnesses and was a fierce opponent of media concentration, mandatory arbitration, and Betsy DeVos.The Al Franken Podcastis one of the nation’s top-ten politics and public affairs podcasts with guestslike Malcolm Nance, Sarah Silverman, Paul Krugman, Chris Rock, and Michelle Obama. Well, not Michelle Obama, but guests like her.His political action committee, Midwest Values PAC, supports progressive Democrats, voting rights,and a host of other good,non-political things.Al and his wife, Franni, have been married for 45 years, many of them happy. They have two kids and four grandchildren.