This Feb. 25, 1978 image released by NBCU Photo Bank shows Tom Davis during "The Franken and Davis Show" skit on "Saturday Night Live." Davis, a writer who worked with Al Franken to develop some of the most popular skits in the early years of "Saturday Night Live" died Thursday, July 19, 2012, of throat and neck cancer in New York. He was 59. (AP Photo/NBCU Photo Bank)