THE FRANKEN AND DAVIS SHOW was a show within a show on Saturday Night Live.
This was a 1978 skit.
Before they go into their “famous” sumo wrestler sketch, Franken stops the sketch to introduce his family, and Tom Davis’s girlfriend, seated in the audience.
Tired of living a lie, Davis outs the comedy team as homosexual lovers.
Franken, humiliated, runs backstage and shoots himself.
Ahahahahahahahahaaaaaa.
The show ends with a note promoting the communist party.
The first two seasons of SNL were hilarious. Since then, haven’t even bothered watching. Not worth the time. I have Glencairn Scotch glasses to wash. Priorities.
It’s a funny bit.
Davis was the smart and creative half of the team.
He played the straight man (excuse the pun) and gave Franken most of the punchlines.
“The Al Franken Decade”. Clever shtick at the time, but it was Davis’ creation.
I’m surprised there aren’t more ex-comedians in Congress.
It seems like that would be the ideal experience to qualify a person for the job.
I don’t watch tv so I never heard of their comedy team. The prick ain’t funny as a Senator
the worst part in ‘Trading Places’ … the Franken/Davis bit in the end
Al has one of those smug Ivy League faces you just want to punch.
I have no patience for grandstanding, arrogant pricks.
Particularly given the Senate is filled with them.
I’m sure the real humor is left for them, knowing how many stupid followers they have that truly support their horseshit.
Comedy and al franken is an oxymoron….always has been.
The most truth revealing skit Al ever did on SNL was the one wherein he was an elected government official who repeatedly urged his constituents to not ask what he could do for them but to ask themselves, “What can you do for me? Al Frankenstein.”
I’ve looked for that skit on YouTube , can’t find it. Has it been deleted?
Al’s gettin’ busy.
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…and then Somalia took over Minnesota and Al Franken entered politics.
Now it makes sense.
When I was 12 I got a job at SNL as “clean-up boy” for the actors and actresses who was knockin-the-boots between skits. Y’know …. wiping they’re gentiles off and providin wet towels, an whatnot. Anyways this guy Franken axes me if he can lick my butt. I never had my butt licked (this was before I worked for Obama) and thought it sounded kinda weird; so’s I told him so. He laughed like a madman, and said that if I wouldn’t like that, he’s stick a pine-cone in my butt and pull it out with his teeth (that song was real big then). I jus kinda stared at him an he called me a “dumb pickaninny coconut-head” real mean like.
It sorta hurt my feelings.