 | Tom Davis, Al Franken’s ‘SNL’ partner, dies at 59
20 July 2012
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Stand-up comedian Tom Davis, who with Al Franken helped develop some of the most popular skits in the early years of “Saturday Night Live,” died on Thursday, aged 59, at his home in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City.
He had a throat and neck cancer.
Davis is best known as the thinner, taller partner in Franken and Davis, the off-kilter comedy duo who performed in the early years of the show, The Associated Press reported.
As performers, Davis was the quiet guy, overshadowed by the flashier Franken, who is now a Democratic senator from Minnesota. Davis, in a 2009 interview with AP, said, “If we were Sonny and Cher, he would be Cher.”
Davis kept up his quirky sense of humour to the end, writing an essay on his experiences with cancer and the coming end of his life.
“I wake up in the morning, delighted to be waking up, read, write, feed the birds, watch sports on TV, accepting the fact that in the foreseeable future I will be a dead person,” Davis wrote. “I want to remind you that dead people are people too.” | | See Also in Showbiz News
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