Franken, a “Saturday Night Live” alumnus, put his show business career on hold in 2008 to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Franken, a “Saturday Night Live” alumnus who put his show business career on hold in 2008 to serve in the U.S. Senate, resigned before the end of his second term due to allegations of sexual misconduct. He returned to the public eye as a podcaster in 2019, and resumed touring as a comedian in 2021.
Needless to say, not everyone found his Trump tweet funny. More to the point, not everyone perceived it as a joke at first, despite Franken’s fame as a comedian. Some Twitter users even repeated the claim uncritically, and without identifying its source:As we’ve noted before, humor doesn’t always play well on social media.
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