Tom Davis
Born	Thomas James Davis (1952-08-13)August 13, 1952 St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	July 19, 2012(2012-07-19) (aged 59) Hudson, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Mimi Raleigh (m. 1991, separated since 1999; his death)
Comedy career
Years active	1972–2012
Medium	Television

Thomas James Davis (August 13, 1952 – July 19, 2012) was an American comedian, writer, and author. He is best known for his comedy partnership withAl Franken, as half of the comedy duo "Franken & Davis" onSaturday Night Live.

Davis was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attendedThe Blake School inMinneapolis, Minnesota, where he began his friendship and professional partnership withAl Franken. In 1975, Davis got his big break as one of the original writers forSaturday Night Live where he and Franken also performed together. The duo wrote the screenplay for and appeared in the filmOne More Saturday Night, and had brief appearances inTrading Places andThe Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. Davis was a frequent guest onThe Al Franken Show, appearing in sketches as various characters. In a well-known sketch onSaturday Night Live, he provided the voice calling into an interview with Dan Aykroyd's Jimmy Carter as the youngster that Jimmy Carter talked down from abad trip. Davis created the SNL sketches "Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber" (withSteve Martin), "Nick The Lounge Singer" (withBill Murray), "The Continental" (withChristopher Walken), and "Coneheads" (withDan Aykroyd andJane Curtin).

External videos
Davis honored on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Sen. Al Franken, July 25, 2012,C-SPAN

In 2009, Davis was diagnosed with cancer. He was treated atMount Sinai Hospital, New York, where, on March 31, 2009, Dr. Eric Genden with minimally invasive robotic surgery, removed a tumor on Davis' right tonsil that had metastasized to an adjoining lymph node.^[1]

Davis died on July 19, 2012, of throat and neck cancer, aged 59.^[2]

• Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss (2009;ISBN 978-0-8021-1880-6)
• Owsley and Me: My LSD Family by Rhoney Gissen Stanley and Tom Davis (2012;ISBN 978-0-9833589-3-0)

• Tom Davis atIMDb
• Tom Davis Papers. General Collection of Modern Books and Manuscripts. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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• Male actors from Saint Paul, Minnesota
• 20th-century American male actors
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