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Michael O'Donoghue

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Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.


— Michael O'Donoghue


#come #ever #francisco #important #nothing

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.


— Michael O'Donoghue


#hissing #jerry #lewis #neat #really

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.


— Michael O'Donoghue


#fear #insects #me #more #more than anything

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.


— Michael O'Donoghue


#end #government #hands #once #put

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.


— Michael O'Donoghue


#ads #anyway #dreadful #roach #television

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.


— Michael O'Donoghue


#become #becoming #beyond #creature #flying

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.


— Michael O'Donoghue


#event #filming #get #howard #hughes






About Michael O'Donoghue






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Writing credits
Evergreen Review (1966 1969) (Periodical)
The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist (with Frank Springer) (1966) (Comic)
National Lampoon (1970–1975) (Periodical)
National Lampoon Radio Dinner (with Tony Hendra and Bob Tischler) (1972) (LP)
The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor (1973) (Editor)
Savages (with George W. Mike Chase loved the monologue and lobbied Michaels to perform it) and O'Donoghue was fired a month later after telling The New York Times that SNL had become "an embarrassment. In the sketch a captured German officer berated by his captors for Nazi war crimes explains that he had a good excuse which he whispers into their ears inaudible to the viewers.

Michael O'Donoghue (January 5 1940 – November 8 1994) was a writer and performer. He was known for his dark and destructive style of comedy and humor was a major contributor to National Lampoon magazine and was the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.

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