"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. "

Al Franken is a satirist, comedian, bestselling and Emmy-winning author, and radio host with a predominantly liberal perspective.

Franken has written several books including Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot and Other Observations (1996) and Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (2003). After graduating from Harvard, Franken started comedy in New York for Saturday Night Live. He was a writer and performer for the comedy show from 1975-80 and 1985-95. His best-known SNL roles included the self-help expert Stuart Smalley with famous line "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"

Franken worked for CNN doing commentary for the Democratic National Convention. He and Huffington covered the presidential elections for Comedy Central in 1992 and 1996. He was a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 2003 where he researched and wrote Lies, his satirical and comical attack on conservative media and George W. Bush.

He and his wife, Franni Franken have a son and a daughter. They currently live in New York City. Franken is a distant cousin of CNN's Bob Franken.