• The Al Franken Show was the flagship talk show of the former talk radio network, Air America Radio. Hosted by Al Franken, it featured commentary and interviews...
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    activist, hosting The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. Franken was elected to the United States Senate in 2008 as the nominee of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor...
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    podcaster, who came to national prominence as the co-host of the Air America Radio program The Al Franken Show in 2004 and 2005. Katherine Lanpher was born...
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  • Stuart Smalley (category Al Franken)
    comedian and satirist Al Franken. The character originated on the television show Saturday Night Live, in a mock self-help show called "Daily Affirmations...
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    became a founding producer for Al Franken's radio show, The Al Franken Show, where he assisted with Franken's book The Truth (With Jokes). "It would not...
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  • to Los Angeles. Al Franken went from his show to the United States Senate, and Rachel Maddow moved her show to television on MSNBC. The network was financially...
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    Show, in the time slot previously occupied by Jerry Springer (which was also the lead-in to The Al Franken Show). The show retained many of the elements...
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  • Tom Davis (comedian) (category Al Franken)
    partnership with Al Franken, as half of the comedy duo "Franken & Davis" on Saturday Night Live. Davis was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended The Blake School...
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  • Al Franken: God Spoke is a 2006 documentary film starring political commentator and future United States Senator Al Franken. The film was made by the...
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    Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, and the works of George Orwell. In 1968, he took part in the TV quiz show University Challenge. In the 1960s Hitchens...
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  • Edward Klein (category The New York Times editors)
    Debate between Klein, Al Franken and Joe Conason on The Al Franken Show Ed Klein on The George Jarkesy Show Archived June 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine...
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    the Nation three times in 2009 and was appointed Political Director of CBS News in November 2011. He appeared each Wednesday on The Al Franken Show on...
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    Dahlia Lithwick (category Canadian expatriate journalists in the United States)
    of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show and...
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  • Talk radio (redirect from Radio talk-show)
    in the mid-2000s. Air America, a network featuring The Al Franken Show, was founded in 2004. It billed itself as a "progressive alternative" to the conservative...
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    podcaster, writer, actor, and musician. In the 1990s and 2000s, Maron was a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and appeared more than...
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    Leeann Tweeden (category Al Franken)
    According to The Washington Post, the photograph "shows Franken looking into a camera, his hands either over or on Tweeden’s chest as she slept". Franken disputed...
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    reports for The Al Franken Show. He appeared on a track on Wig in a Box, a tribute album for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Colbert read the part of Leopold...
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    2003. Fox News Channel, the plaintiff, sought to enjoin Al Franken from using Fox News's trademark phrase "fair & balanced" in the title of his then-forthcoming...
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    Party (DFL) candidate, Al Franken, defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in one of the closest elections in the history of the Senate, with Coleman's...
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  • bumbling baggage handlers. Al Franken later hosted his own talk show on which Tom Davis has made numerous appearances. Franken, who in 2009 became a U.S...
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  • Stuart Saves His Family (category Films with screenplays by Al Franken)
    sketches from the early to mid-1990s. The film follows the adventures of would-be self-help guru Stuart Smalley, a creation of comedian Al Franken, as he attempts...
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  • sportsperson-politicians It was known as Truro-Bible Hill at the time of Zann's election, but it was renamed in the 2012 electoral boundary review. Mikelionis, Lukas...
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    Thomas Oliphant (journalist) (category The Boston Globe people)
    2009, when he discussed the legacy of Ted Kennedy.[citation needed] Oliphant was also a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, where he also appeared as...
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  • Little Bighorn. Katherine Lanpher, columnist and later co-host of The Al Franken Show James Lileks Robert Ridder, former reporter, later a director for...
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  • Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, The Late Late Show (CBS TV) with Craig Kilborn, Seth MacFarlane, VH1, MTV and The Al Franken Show among others. Jessup has written...
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  • and Other Observations (ISBN 0-385-31474-4) is a 1996 American book by Al Franken. It is satirically critical of 1990s right-wing political figures such...
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  • List of U.S. radio programs (category Lists of mass media in the United States)
    of Jimmie Allen (1933–1943) The Al Franken Show (2004–2007) The Al Jolson Show (1932–1949) Al Pearce (1928–1947) The Aldrich Family (1939–1953) Alec Templeton...
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    announced that until the next iteration of the show, The Daily Show would feature weekly celebrity guest hosts including Al Franken, Wanda Sykes, Leslie...
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  • 2021-11-26. "2023 GRAMMYs Awards Show: Complete Winners & Nominations List". GRAMMY.com. November 16, 2022. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014...
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    writing his own blog. He was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show and makes guest appearances on The Colbert Report, Countdown with Keith Olbermann,...
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