Franken couldn't hold a candle to the late Michael O'Donoghue.
I guess that some of Franken's early stuff was pretty funny - don't remember it at the time, just seen it in reruns. Figure that he wrote for the show for what, 20 years? Late 70s to mid-to-late 90s?
He should have hung it up and rested on his laurels. That's one massive ego he's sporting.
Regardless, MOD inspired a generation or two of comics, beginning with the original National Lampoon, the National Lampoon Radio Hour, which featured Chevy Chase, Belushi, all before SNL premiered in 1975.
Too bad his head exploded.
I tripped over this tonight while I was surfing. Thought that you might like a trip down memory lane.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2353/saturday-night-live-wolverines-cold-open#s-p60-sa-i1