All across the country, you'll find millions of people who think that the state of politics is a joke. Al Franken is a man who's intentionally set out to prove it. The funnyman spent more than twenty years entertaining us on 'Saturday Night Live', but eventually all of us get itchy feet, and as the 20th century gave way to the 21st, Franken decided that he was running out of material, and he'd be better off trying to improve the world than mocking it.
Franken went from cracking jokes at the expense of the political class to joining them. A passionate campaigner about social issues, he put his money where his mouth was and stood for election on Minnesota. He won. Franken took up office as a senator in 2008, and he's been there ever since. Clearly, the people of Minnesota think he's doing a great job.