21 NOV

Saturday Night Live's Female Staff Members Defend Al Franken in Letter

Though Saturday Night Live recently took Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to task for a sexual harassment scandal, female staff members at the NBC sketch show are banding together to defend him.

Franken — who was an SNL writer and cast member in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s — was accused earlier this month of forcibly kissing Leeann Tweeden during a USO tour in 2006. She also released a photo that appeared to show Franken groping her while she was asleep.

slammed the photo in which the senator apparently gropes Tweeden: “Now, I know this photo looks bad, but remember, it also is bad. And sure, this was taken before Franken ran for public office, but it was also taken after he was a sophomore in high school. It’s pretty hard to be, like, ‘Come on, he didn’t know better. He was only 55.’”

But Real Time host Bill Maher defended Franken on the Nov. 17 installment of his show, saying that Franken does not deserve to be lumped in with other men recently accused of sexual assault, including Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Your thoughts on the letter from SNL‘s female staffers? Drop ’em in a comment.

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