Tom Davis, ‘SNL’ writer and comedy partner of Al Franken, dies at 59

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Source: WP

Tom Davis, the longtime stand-up comedy partner of Al Franken and a writer who created many of the most memorable sketches on “Saturday Night Live,” including the alien “Coneheads,” which he dreamed up while on LSD, died July 19 at his home in Hudson, N.Y. He was 59.

He had a metastatic tonsil cancer, said his wife, Mimi Raleigh.

Mr. Davis and Franken began writing jokes together as teenagers at the private Blake School in Minneapolis, making mock announcements over the public address system, including a satirical Ku Klux Klan march called “Superpatrioticanticatholicsegregatious.”

They joined “Saturday Night Live” before its debut season in 1975 and shared a single apprentice writer's salary of $350 a week, where they collaborated on sketches culled from politics, pop culture, and the bizarre.



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He also played fellow baggage handler with Franken in the great movie, "Trading Places."

[blm]

1. He really was a sweetheart, too. So nice, so genuine.

He's hanging with O'Donoghue and Belushi. ; )

[Historic NY]

2. Sad, I have a friend going through that right now.....

major surgery and then they hit him with chemo every day except weekends & holidays. They caught it but it spread. He looked like crap today...but I told him in a few weeks he should be feeling a bit better.

[Clinton Mask]

3. Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team)

[itsrobert]

4. I thought he had been dead for awhile.

They had some old clips on Howard Stern last week and I was thinking he died a while ago.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. Piece he wrote about his feelings on impending death

It's a good read
http://www.incidentreport.info/id139.html