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Comedy writer Tom Davis passed away on Thursday of cancer of the tonsils. He was 59.
Davis was best known for being one half of Franken & Davis. The Franken in question, of course, now sits in the Senate. Davis & Franken were school mates in Minnesota and were discovered by Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and hired the duo as writers for the fledgling NBC show.
Davis & Franken occasionally appeared on air as a comedy duo. However, Davis also enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Dan Aykroyd co-writing “The Coneheads” skits as well as a skit where poor Julia Child cut the dickens out of her finger.
After an absence of a decade, Davis returned to SNL in the early 1990s where his most notable skit was “The Continental” with frequent guest host Christopher Walken.
Here’s an interview Davis conducted a couple of years back.
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JohnD| 7.20.12 @ 6:26AM
Very sad. Tom Davis and Al Franken were hilariously funny together in the early SNL days.
astorian| 7.20.12 @ 10:20AM
Back when I was a teenager, in the Seventies, long before I knew anything of Al Franken's politics, how did I know when it was time to turn off "Saturday Night Live" and go to bed?
When Franken and Davis came on.
They were so consistently, astonishingly unfunny that I could safely assume there'd be nothing good for the rest of the show.
Occam's Tool| 7.20.12 @ 3:45PM
The "Julia Child cutting her fingers off and bleeding to death skit" was a massively favorite comedy skit of...Julia Child. The lady had a good sense of humor.