Al Franken's 'SNL' partner dies
Posted July 19, 2012
This 1978 file photo from NBC shows 'Saturday Night Live' writer/performers Al Franken, left, and Tom Davis in New York. Davis, a writer and performer who with Franken developed some of the most popular skits in the early years of 'Saturday Night Live,' died Thursday, July 19, 2012. He was 59.
(Credit: By Anonymous, AP)
Remember the Saturday Night Live "Coneheads" skit with Dan Aykroyd? And Bill Murray as "Nick the Lounge Singer"?
Tom Davis, the man who co-wrote many of SNL's classic skits with Al Franken, died on Thursday in New York. He was 59.
His wife, Mimi Raleigh, says he died of throat and neck cancer at his home in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City, reports the AP. He was diagnosed in 2009.
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