Tommy Newsom, the former longtime saxophonist for "The Tonight Show" orchestra who regularly subbed for bandleader Doc Severinsen and earned the tongue-in-cheek nickname "Mr. Excitement" as the famously low-key butt of Johnny Carson's jokes, has died. He was 78.
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