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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.