Saturday, July 21, 2012

TD

Let's say goodbye to Tom Davis, half of Franken and Davis, the junior writing team from the earliest days of Saturday Night Live.  Franken went on to greater fame as a producer, performer, author and, finally, politician.  Davis had his own road to travel (which included an awful lot of drugs), as he explains in his odd book Thirty-Nine Years Of Short Term Memory Loss.

Maybe the best-known bit the team created was the Coneheads, and, as a one-off, there's Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child.  F&D also pestered Lorne Michaels enough to get a fair amount of air time for their own routines.

Franken and Davis may not have been the best writers or performers in SNL's history, but they helped establish a tone of juvenile bad taste that the show has kept up, as well as a strong touch of absurdity.

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