--- title: Watch Hillary Clinton Campaign Edition of 'Mean Tweets' description: Senator Al Franken reads mean tweets about his recent endorsement of Hillary Clinton. canonical: https://time.com/4237756/hillary-clinton-mean-tweets/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-25T19:57:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:23:37.997Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Al Franken Read Mean Tweets About His Clinton Endorsement og:description: A spin on the Jimmy Kimmel bit og:url: https://time.com/4237756/hillary-clinton-mean-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Al Franken Read Mean Tweets About His Clinton Endorsement twitter:description: A spin on the Jimmy Kimmel bit twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Al Franken Read Mean Tweets About His Endorsement of Hillary Clinton by [Danielle Zhu / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Danielle Zhu / Entertainment Weekly Feb 25, 2016 7:57 PM UTC by [Danielle Zhu / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Danielle Zhu / Entertainment Weekly Feb 25, 2016 7:57 PM UTC Ahead of the Minnesota caucus on March 1, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has enlisted comedian and senator Al Franken for her own campaign version of “Mean Tweets.” The popular segment on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ shows celebrities reading offensive and funny tweets about themselves. In Clinton’s political, non-Kimmel-helmed version, Senator Franken reads tweets he’s received in response to his endorsement of her. Franken takes the opportunity to list all the issues he and Clinton stand for, as well as remind people that he was on _Saturday Night Live_, not _MADtv._ Watch the full clip above. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/25/hillary-clinton-al-franken-mean-tweets) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) Watch Hillary Clinton Campaign Edition of 'Mean Tweets' ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4237756/hillary-clinton-mean-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4237756/hillary-clinton-mean-tweets/"},"headline":"Watch Al Franken Read Mean Tweets About His Endorsement of Hillary Clinton","datePublished":"2016-02-25T19:57:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:23:37.997Z","description":"A spin on the Jimmy Kimmel bit","url":"https://time.com/4237756/hillary-clinton-mean-tweets/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","democrats","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Danielle Zhu / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4237756/hillary-clinton-mean-tweets/","name":"Watch Al Franken Read Mean Tweets About His Endorsement of Hillary Clinton"}}]}] ```