Al Franken Taught Senators How to Clap Sarcastically for Trump’s Speeches | The Tonight Show

[@billybeads3328]

Al Franken was brilliant at asking piercing questions when he was on any Senate committee

[@1223steffen]

He was inconsistent.

[@blurtling]

He needs to run for reelection. Full stop.

[@alalalala57]

@@1223steffen Inconsistently inconsistent. As in, he was consistent.

[@1223steffen]

He was also a sexual predator

[@billybeads3328]

@@1223steffen NOT true and YOU have zero proof of that

[@batgurrl]

Al, you are needed back in The Senate or in politics. Your brutal honesty and humor are so missed.

[@batgurrl]

@@NeilNewsNetwork she didn’t seem to care for all those years until Roger Stone goaded her. It was a comedic picture in bad taste and nothing more.

[@batgurrl]

@@NeilNewsNetwork that was NEVER substantiated by anyone. Ring wing smear campaign. Now that he’s out of office, how come they are not all suing him and there were zero criminal or civil lawsuits against him.Just admit it’s nonsense

[@batgurrl]

@@NeilNewsNetwork he’s NOT rich and has no real power. You just can’t admit there were no lawsuits because the allegations had no truth. Give it up, there is no factual basis to that. Just right wing baseless accusations

[@kaystevens8428]

@@NeilNewsNetwork Just curious -- did you believe the pseudo-millionaire and pathological liar politician who went to bat for his Supreme Court nominee or the very credible, brave woman who testified before Congress that he had committed sex crimes against her when they were in high school?

[@batgurrl]

@@NeilNewsNetwork he was immediately made to resign. He had no power. Trumps accusers all came forward with specific allegations. Don’t tell me Al Franken has more power than the Presidential candidate. The only excuse for them NOT coming forward or suing him was it was a big nothing burger. What about all those women who came forward against NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. Lots of power and money

[@kedawitkedawi3611]

We need you back sir.This man is very honest.

[@gerardlafontaine2322]

Al Franken admitted to sexually assaulting multiple women.

[@Dovietail]

I freaking love Al Frankin.

[@rock-n-rollfoodie]

Gloria! I second that love to the hundredth degree. This man is for the people!

[@chickenmama823]

Oh I do too!

[@hankgarza4975]

Communism Sucks, and so do you.

[@suecastillo4056]

Me too!!! I just think he’s great and really really smart!!🥰♥️☮️

[@debbiepowers4743]

I know, I do too. He got a raw deal.

[@arliepics4364]

We need Al.....We want Al.... You are a saint compared to other members still in power.

[@gerardlafontaine2322]

You are incorrect on that one.

[@slister45]

I had the privilege of catching Al's show in Ithaca last year. He was fabulous!

[@dreed1058]

Just saw him speak in Austin, Tx. in December - always admired him, and now couldn't adore him more! We need more smart comedians in public service!

[@luciferangelica]

i know where they found a good use for comedians in politics. get this man a gun

[@susantunbridge4612]

Like President Zelenskiyy

[@Strider1954]

I had the honor of listening to his daily radio shows for 3 years. Voting for him is one of my best votes, I knew he was well prepared for what he wanted to do.

[@arynrowland862]

Lol, no. We need more capable professionals in office who can work to get something done, not another mouthpiece that says a lot, but does nothing. Can you name even one of his accomplishments in the Senate?

[@tubehound8]

Sen. Al Franken is bright enough and smart enough and gosh darn it people like him. Run Franken run

[@clarkhull7546]

Yes run Franken run. Run from that photo of you being a pervert.

[@S.Pociecha]

@@clarkhull7546, you realize no one can feel anyone up when they're wearing a flak jacket, right? That's what made it comical.

[@clarkhull7546]

@@S.Pociecha Ahhh...of course. That's what made it comical. Brilliant!!

[@deloresthomas5624]

Run AL Run please!!!

[@pantlonimary7669]

Come back Al. We need you in the Senate.

[@williamobryan682]

@David Williamson HEAR HEAR !

[@mdstevens8989]

I Love Al Franken! I was a server of his at Chesters in Rochester MN back when he was still a senator about 7 years ago. Please run for office again Al, you’re deeply missed.

[@teresarichardson5960]

I love Al Franken, too! I'd like to see him back in politics.

[@littlejoe9381]

Always remember that you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it, people like you.

[@patriciamartinez-lx8dy]

Al Franken your humor is really funny. I can only imagine when you were in the Senate how you kept your Democratic colleagues in stitches by laughing with your jokes behind the scenes. Always look forward to listening to your podcasts. 👍

[@craigwiester9177]

Al, you should have said, "I'll resign for my mis-deeds when Trump does."

[@mocuishle1028]

EXACTLY! 👏

[@1223steffen]

When Biden does too.

[@stevewalston7089]

@@1223steffen F off dude. Go back to fox news and your crack pipe.

[@orangemonster61]

Exactly that's why I can no longer support him.

[@orangemonster61]

@@1223steffen Not a finer man on earth than Joe Biden. If you have a problem with Biden it's you that is wacky.

[@sugarcookiecube]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 COME BACK AL. WE NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@patriciadrinker1218]

Al Franken would be great if he came back as senator!!!

[@luciferangelica]

why can't we get someone good instead?

[@davidwalter2002]

My mother lived to be 90, and if someone had said that to her on her 90th birthday, she would have laughed till she cried.

[@galepatrick1702]

laugh out loud this morning watching this - common denominator is great humor - thanks Al Franken -

[@killmore75]

He is smart enough and good enough! People like him!

[@chefpaddy]

Gosh darn it, I do...

[@judychandler8485]

And dog gone it, I like him too !! 🤗

[@clarkhull7546]

Yes perverts do like him in that photo

[@hydrocarbon82]

To anyone that says they don't like him I say: denial ain't just a river in Egypt!

[@erickim2025]

I find him funny & enjoyed his books, AL the senate & America needs you back 😉

[@stoneyll]

The Great Al Franken~! We love you.

[@ShawnLH88]

RUN FOR SENATOR AGAIN DAMNIT. WE NEED YOU AL!!

[@abird1539]

Yes, Al. Just say yes; throw your hat in the ring again. We.NEED your 'candid' observations to keep us going... better laughing than... well, ya know. Geezes we miss you!

[@SLevinCinema]

I miss Al Franken. We need him back in the Senate.

[@newgmodo5609]

He was railroaded by his own party! I’m still mad at the Dems for that. He asked for an investigation to prove his innocence, & they refused. Their rush to judgment is just as wrong as the Repubs’ tolerance of bad behavior and lack of integrity!

[@SLevinCinema]

@@newgmodo5609 not only do I feel his allegations were the least founded but that he also handled it with grace and respect. I'd welcome him back without question, he was a tough nut when he needed to be.

[@mrvlsmrv]

Al, run for Senate again. Let the state of Minnesota decide. I for one refuse to give up on democracy.

[@1223steffen]

@@newgmodo5609 they did investigate

[@1223steffen]

@Tessmage Tessera so? He had nine accusations.

[@mikeboothe]

I wish Al would run again. We need a strong intelligent voice in Congress.

[@michaelvaladez6570]

I totally agree.I wish he would run again.Most definitely.

[@1nvisible1]

*He never should have resigned.*

[@gingerhitzke9185]

Agreed!

[@gingerhitzke9185]

He should run for President.

[@johnthomas2587]

He was a Senator.

[@gailmaria2502]

Al Franken you are one of the best. Love seeing Jimmy laugh out loud with his whole body.😂

[@ToneTraveler]

“…and then I started thinking of her 90 year old son.” Got me Franken! 😂

[@redhead5990]

I miss your Senator Franklin, and please come back! Our Democracy is at risk!

[@ThePoorStudent]

I've heard the "you have a bright future" joke several times and it still cracks me up! :D

[@tonigonzalez1926]

Probably won’t get to see him on tour but would love to see him back in the senate

[@nichole8609]

Who wouldn't want to receive a sarcastic "thank you" letter from Al Franken?? Lol I would!

[@bananamansam01]

I'm a lifelong MN resident (with the exception of a few college years). I thought he was an excellent senator. I wish he hadn't resigned.

[@autumnconway3642]

Agree

[@LastRookie]

I would agree, but I think it was needed for the time, and I think it's better for him to not be a senator. He seems to be doing better.

[@12486jules]

I would vote for you again Al! Please consider running again

[@reeseew5508]

Watched this at 3am and almost woke my family 😆😆🤣🤣😂

[@josephwheeler6674]

Al is one of the greatest!

[@realityjunky]

Love you, Al Franken!!!

[@savannahm.laurentian1286]

We love you, Al. Wish you had not resigned. As with apologies, it's always those with the most integrity resign.

[@leeleeleelee7567]

I agree, we really miss you Al.

[@Sound22001]

Mr Franken, I am a big fan of your PODCAST 👍 Thank you 🙏 and greetings from Germany

[@kevwiz369]

Al Franken is so awesome 👌🏼

[@clarkhull7546]

Perverts also believe he was awesome in that photo.

[@dawnoleary4907]

So true From Minnesota

[@rosalindaarons6657]

I wish All Franken was Senator Franken.again

[@laurab1057]

one of the greatest senators we have ever had. please come back.

[@theresamcdonald5709]

You would win a senate run hands down!!!! Please run for office again!!!

[@thomasconway5342]

Got to see Al in Portland, he did an hour n a half, it seemed like a half hour, brilliant!

[@maryhazlett]

Frankly, almost everyone in my family, even at age 110, would have thought the congrats letter was funny. We have what my dad used to call a "warped sense of humor". (got it from him). I wish Al would run again.

[@clemt1456]

He shouldn't have resigned.

[@1223steffen]

I’m glad

[@S.Pociecha]

@Clem T, I'm pretty sure he knows that.

[@autumnconway3642]

Agree

[@nonamesinenomine]

Should've never been in senate in the first place

[@snappingturtlehiddentiger6571]

He molested sleeping women

[@margarethoerl461]

Run Al Run! We know your thinking about it. 😍

[@yellolab09]

We really miss you in congress, Al.

[@1223steffen]

I don’t he is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen

[@javen69]

I've always loved Al Franken. I remember seeing his signs across my city and him being elected as a kid.

[@my2cents395]

I remember AL on SNL playing a reporter on seen and he had a Sat. dish for a hat. At the time a Sat dish on a truck would have been 8' across. He was funny and ahead of his time.

[@macrichardson7440]

We need Al back !!!!!

[@ManyfiresWoman]

Loved the sarcastic clap! 😂

[@gloriamaggs5453]

Ah Al.......you are always so refreshing!! I just love you to bits! I just celebrated my 80th birthday.....will keep in mind my bright future! Al said so! G.

[@jamescahoe7981]

Franken was a smart and thoughtful senator. I wish he would run again. I know he made a mistake but compared to Trump he is a choir boy.

[@1223steffen]

Nine women

[@callen9623]

How many people trump paid to have an abortion? I like that Johnny Carson bit you did there.

[@Sharsung]

I’m not convinced he made those “mistakes “. He was effective and people loved him.

[@mrvlsmrv]

@@1223steffen is a thin softball team.

[@patriciabagby90]

It was a put up job. He was getting too popular.

[@justsaying3729]

Baby Come Back! We Need & Miss you Al.

[@ricaard]

This is my ONE FALLON VIDEO FOR THE YEAR. I came to see Al.

[@MW-rq5uc]

Boebert and MTGreen can be in Congress but Franken can’t. That is a shame. Franken is so smart and so funny. Where did we go this wrong?

[@notperfectandneverwillbe4825]

Senator franken took responsiblity for his mistakes unlike those two morons.

[@darindunn]

Because he sexually assaulted 13 women. The other two simply have a different view on the issues than you.

[@kevinarnold4007]

@@darindunn 13 women???? Are you fucking serious? Thats a bullshit story. Take off you social warrior tin foil helmet and wake the fuck up. He resigned over a stupid fucking photo. Yet his republican accuser slapped asses on stage and laughed it off. Yet everyone else in congress gives a free pass to Boebert, Taylor Green, Matt Gates, Gosar ect.. should I go on?

[@dianemitchell1717]

Frankin’s only crime was being a progressive. That is why the corporate dems shoved him out. So sorry he resigned.

[@catmom1322]

Who's "we?"

[@wendystocklin9995]

Love Al Franken.

[@lynnegackstetter2779]

I miss my senator too. I wrote and begged him to remain my Minnesota senator. To leave over an accusation that happened year's ago when he was on SNL

[@1223steffen]

So?

[@motherofone1]

My absolute favourite Al Franken character was Stuart Smally...My best friend and I would watch those skits on SNL and tears would literally be streaming down our faces. The best one of those was when Michael Jordan was a guest. Absolutely hilarious. 🤣💖

[@johnlennon1970]

Grabs women on the breasts. Great guy!

[@shannonduffy519]

Omg, yes! The Michael Jordan episode!!!! 🤣

[@mesaeddie]

Also loved his Pat Robertson.

[@catherinemacaskill1421]

John, I guess you forgot that your guy is on tape bragging about grabbing women by their genitals. More right wing hypocrisy.

[@Spiritof_76]

@@johnlennon1970 Sophomoric pose in a photo... not actual grabbing. Poor taste, sure. Want to talk about some of the Republican congress and senators and their misdeeds?

[@kootiblu113]

We need you in government please! This coming from a minnesotan.

[@maxzzyzx8038]

We need you "Al Franken" back in the Senate.

[@MichaelWorley]

Put this man back in the Senate.

[@clarkhull7546]

Put him back in the Senate with a blown up photo of him being a pervert behind his desk.

[@autumnconway3642]

We desperately need him back.It will happen.

[@titusmccarthy]

NO! No more celebrities.

[@jk22222sd]

We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@bonnie.duncan]

goddamnit, we need al franken back in politics!

[@80sChick80s]

I LOVE AL FRANKEN! I thought he was a great Senator.

[@Quahogger]

I wish he would run for office. I miss him

[@phunktified1]

Brilliant guy all around. Surely a loss for Minnesotans not having him in the Senate. Definitely a loss for Americans.

[@1223steffen]

lol funny. Al was an assaulter

[@chrismerkel9604]

Al Franken Giant Of The Senate & Comedy Sarcasm!

[@pamr4040]

Love you, Al! 🧡

[@luzvaldes1030]

I’m still angry that he was pressured to resign from Congress. It was just a terrible miscarriage of justice and I believe Kirsten Gillibrand had a lot to do with it.

[@moiramccleary2413]

I agree. Al was set up

[@1223steffen]

Why?

[@1223steffen]

@@moiramccleary2413 how?

[@bonnie.duncan]

fyi…al franken was a senator, not a congressman…but other than that, i 100% agree…

[@luzvaldes1030]

@@bonnie.duncan FYI.… Congress is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives

[@bonitasilver9379]

love Al Franken

[@maestrogringo]

Reminds me of the SNL sketch "Sarcastic Clapping Family" with Kevin Bacon! 🤣

[@leannsawatzky2880]

Liked him even more as my senator than as a comedian.

[@clarkhull7546]

If he was ever a comedian then I'm the emperor of Russia.

[@guydavidknollcomedy]

@@clarkhull7546 he’s one of the original writers on snl and you’re still not the emperor of Russia

[@clarkhull7546]

@@guydavidknollcomedy That still doesn't make him funny. Comparing him to great comedy is like comparing Justin Bieber to Led Zeppelin.

[@alansilverman8500]

Pelosi ended up doing the sarcastic clap!

[@zorazorazorzzora8333]

Love him … love Al….

[@pattitinsley4899]

Come on Al, the country needs you. Run again!

[@jmkkrakkaus]

LOVE AL FRANKEN ❤❤❤❤

[@justsaying3729]

Al Franken: I DID'NT INTERNALIZE IT. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You got a Bright Future...son 90 years old....too Funny!

[@briankane3905]

Damn Al, you are so funny!! How's it feel not being a Senator anymore? LOL

[@tamarapayne2876]

I can’t believe they kicked him out and Matt Gaetz is still going strong. Yargh!

[@ivonnedarley6813]

Yeah. What's up with that?!?

[@realityjunky]

2:56 Just realized that Al is the Venn diagram between US comedians and politicians. Am I forgetting anyone else?

[@johnmar6376]

We need him back in senate

[@foodiegirls305]

Al Franken is the BEST! Absolute Favourite

[@clarkhull7546]

He got slapped around by Ann Coulter.

[@jeffnaslund]

Never should’ve left the senate

[@loribau2842]

I LOVE YOU AL

[@louiseransil8115]

I hoped Franken would be the 2020 Candidate. Al, come back. We NEED YOU...(!)

[@zinkadu]

Al Franken for president 2024❤️

[@bookbwitched466]

What a tragic loss to democracy. He is still a gift to us all. I'm So Grateful.

[@jakepalgon]

I miss Al Franken.

[@Arcturuseyes]

Al needs a beer stein. Then he could call it Franken's stein...

[@dreed1058]

good on! made this 'ole lady lmfao!!

[@blondienhouston4825]

You've got a bright future! And then I thought about her ninty year old son! Cracked me up!!!!!🤣😅😝

[@blurtling]

He should have said re: trump's SotU address, "not so moving -- more like a bowel movement."

[@ivonnedarley6813]

Good one!

[@Rebecca-qx1et]

I love Al 💜💜💜

[@auroragb]

"her 90 year old son..." Hahahahaha

[@susanknutie270]

The Nancy Pelosi clap

[@sharongelfand5065]

That clap was meant to be so patronizing, and it was...tear, rip.

[@rbeygarcia]

He still takes those pauses like when he did Stuart Smalley on SNL. I’d always assumed that quirk was him puttin’ that on for the character; for comedic effect.

[@saraho9568]

Pelosi kinda did the sarcastic clap. Funny af.