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Michael O'Donoghue (January 5, 1940 – November 8, 1994) was an American writer and performer. He was known for his dark and destructive style of comedy and humor, and was a major contributor to National Lampoon magazine. He was the first head writer of Saturday Night Live and the first performer to deliver a line on the series.
May 3, 2022 · Advertisement. O’Donoghue was a struggling artist-type in the late 1960s, finding some underground success with alternative comics and experimental theater but just scraping by, according to Dennis Perrin's Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue.
Nov 10, 1994 · Michael O'Donoghue, a comedy writer who helped create two of his generation's best-known institutions of humor, National Lampoon magazine and the NBC television show "Saturday Night Live,"...
Mr. Mike. Mini Bio. Michael O'Donoghue was born on January 5, 1940 in Sauquoit, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979), Saturday Night Live (1975) and Manhattan (1979). He was married to Cheryl Hardwick and Janice Bickel. He died on November 8, 1994 in New York City, New York, USA. Family. Spouses.
Nov 4, 2014 · The unsettling, almost Reptilian Mr. Mike starred in his own recurring sketch “Mr. Mike’s Least-Loved Bedtime Tales,” where O’Donoghue — wearing a suit, dark glasses, and often smoking a ...
Original “Saturday Night Live” writer Michael O’Donoghue, a two-time Emmy winner who later penned screenplays for castmates Gilda Radner and Bill Murray, has died. He was 54. O’Donoghue died...
Jan 1, 1998 · Angry comic genius Michael O'Donoghue (1940-1994) indelibly shaped National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live in their heydays. This "primer" offers an intriguing, respectful treatment by freelance journalist Perrin, who describes his subject as a "personal god to me."
- Dennis Perrin
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