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Look so it's Tom Davis Tuesday and I know no one cares or reads these posts ok? And I'm really sad because he deserved adoration and admiration and frankly credit for a lot of comedy.

But I'm especially sad because the sketch I would like to share is not available anywhere to share here. It's only available to stream through watching the full episode which you can do on either Peacock or possibly still Hulu.

It's from season five. Last episode actually. May 24th, 1980. Buck Henry is the host of course.

The sketch I'm referring to is Mommy Beer. It's a musical sketch about a beer brand with a nipple attached.

The nice thing about the sketch is it's got Tom Davis, Al Franken, Jim Downey, Buck Henry, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray, and the ever amazing Peter Aykroyd (yes that's right Danny's little brother).

If anyone is reading this and you can go watch it, I highly recommend it. But I warn you non existent reader that there is an Uncle Roy sketch and if you don't know what those are you can guess by the name what it's about I'm sure since I'm warning you.

If anyone is reading this and they can't stream the episode, onesnladay.com has a write up about it and many pictures to boot.

This picture credit to onesnladay.com please visit the site they're pretty nifty. If you read all the way to here I love you and thank you. I don't care about getting popular I just think the unknowns in this photo deserve to be remembered.

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Well here we are again. It's Tom Davis Tuesday. You might say it's a... Special day here for TDT... But that depends on how dark your sense of humor is, because today is the tenth anniversary of the day Tom died.

Sadly in 2009 he got throat cancer and in 2012 you might say he gave up the ghost and left us far too soon at the age of 59.

He was a comedic genius, having written some of the most well-known sketches from Saturday Night Love's history (where he worked off and on from the first year to almost the 20th anniversary.

I've already talked before about what those sketches were- such as Coneheads which he wrote with Dan Aykroyd after a trip to Easter Island where they basically ran around yelling 'the heads! The heads!!' They were high of course.

Tom was a connoisseur of illicit things. He drank, smoked weed, dropped acid, and freebased heroine with Jerry Garcia. He managed to beat that addiction, though.

He and Al Franken were comedy partners for decades, having met in high school and working together until their break up.

All of this information and more can be found in Tom's book 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. If you are interested in early Saturday Night Live, I highly suggest you read it. Please pick it up if you can.

And please give Tom some thought today. He is loved, he is missed. The comedy world really has been much darker without him these last ten years.

So here's to you, Tom. We'll be smoking some weed, drinking some gin (Tom's favorite), and hopefully getting some ass tonight (also something Tom loved) in memory of you.

❤️Thomas James Davis❤️

August 13, 1952- July 19, 2012

(also forever)

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Mad props to everyone ofc. But submitted for your approval is the placement of Tom and Mr. Mike, absolute loves of my life.

Absolute loves of my life as well. We need to start Mr. Mike Mondays tbh. But today is Tom Davis Tuesday and this is a great picture of him (and everyone else). It does kind of look like Tom stood between Mr. Mike and Al to keep Al from getting murdered but that's another story for another time.

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For this week's Tom Davis Tuesday I'm gonna post this pretty picture here of Tom and Al with Jane and Gilda. I love it.

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Well it's a special edition of Tom Davis (Tues)Day since it's Saturday, but it would have been Tom Davis's 70th birthday today so I'm posting now instead.

We drank, smoked, played games, made and ate good food and cupcakes, and of course some other fun stuff in his honor.

Happy Birthday, funnyman. Love you muchly.

Here is a pic of the cupcake

Here is a pic of Tom with him, Al Franken.

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That is all.

Happy Tom Davis Tuesday friends!!! Look at that mustache! What was it about young men and mustaches? He looks like the biology teacher and Al looks like the history teacher who tells dumb history jokes all day long. I love this. I LOVE it. Dweebs.

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I guess for today's Tom Davis Tuesday I'm posting this fantastic photo of Tom and Al from 1977 taken by Jeff Frederick.

I actually love this pic cuz when I was around 10 or so I did this same dumb gag that Al is doing pretending to fall off a gate on a family trip.

But good Lord my Tom looks so good here. Just delicious.

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Look so I forgot to do Tom Davis Tuesday last night and I feel shitty about it and today was a shitty fucking day so here's a pic of my guy in a suit looking cute.