Tom Flanigan

Tom Flanigan is an American actor, writer and comedian.

Biography

Flanigan grew up in Eden, NY, south of Buffalo in western New York state. He attended the University of Iowa where he majored in Biomedical Engineering and was a member, director, and producer of the improvisational comedy troupe IC Improvs. Flanigan graduated with a B.S. in 1996 and moved to Chicago, where he was employed by Andersen Consulting. He attended classes at The Second City and was later hired as a member of the Training Center faculty.

In 1998, Flanigan (with Ronnie Feldman and Matt Hovde) co-founded Galileo Players, a sketch comedy troupe inspired by science.

Between 2008 and 2010, as a member of The Second City e.t.c. ensemble, Flanigan helped create the revues "Campaign Supernova", "Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?", "Studs Terkel's Not Working", and "The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life"

Flanigan was hired as a writer for Season 36 of Saturday Night Live in August 2010.

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Tom Flanigan (baseball)

Thomas Anthony Flanigan (born September 6, 1934, at Cincinnati) is a retired American professional baseball player: a 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), 175 lb (79 kg) left-handed pitcher who appeared in three Major League Baseball games over the course of a seven-year professional career — two games for the 1954 Chicago White Sox and one for the 1958 St. Louis Cardinals.

Flanigan began his third professional season at age 19 on the White Sox' MLB roster, and appeared in two games, both in relief, allowing no runs and only one hit (a single to Frank Bolling of the Detroit Tigers) in 1⅔ innings pitched. After spending the rest of 1954, and all of 1955 through 1957, in minor league baseball, he was selected in the winter 1957 Rule 5 draft by the Cardinals and began 1958 on their roster. In his only National League appearance, against the Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium April 15, Flanigan hurled one inning in relief and allowed two hits and one run, the latter coming on a home run by Cub catcher Cal Neeman. He then was returned to the White Sox' Indianapolis Indians affiliate, from which he had been drafted.