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‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Tom Davis Dies at 59

Saluting our own:

Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian Tom Davis passed away today from throat and neck cancer in his home in Hudson, NY
by Alison Willmore

One of the original writers for “Saturday Night Live” when it premiered in 1975, Davis formed the comedy team “Franken & Davis” with Al Franken when the two were still in high school in Minneapolis. When the pair were first hired at SNL, Lorne Michaels negotiated for them to split a single writer’s salary of $350 per week. In addition to their years of writing and creating famous characters on the comedy institution, they also sometimes performed together on air in sketches like “The Brain Tumor Comedian.” Off air, they cowrote the 1986 film “One More Saturday Night.” read article

Why Politicians Shouldn’t Marry Comedy Writers

We’re seeing a beautiful Wes Anderson film in this. (Sadly, we doubt that Wes does.)

Bob Kerrey’s wife, Sarah Paley, rues his political career, disses Nebraska, in Vogue essay

Here’s an interesting twist on the adoring political spouse: Does it matter to voters if a wife or husband really, really doesn’t want to be part of the campaign? read article