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  1. Steve O'Donnell is an American television writer. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and The Chris Rock Show.

  2. Feb 7, 2023 · Staff Favorite Moments: Writer Steve O'Donnell, Part 2 | Letterman. The "Late Night" head writer shares another collection of his highlights including Bill Murray, Pee Wee Herman, the...

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  3. Feb 12, 2017 · Steve O'Donnell receives the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence at the Writers Guild of America East awards presentation on February 19, 2017. Here are his first appearances on Late...

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  4. Nov 15, 2016 · November 15, 2016. Comedy writer and Harvard alumnus Steve M. ODonnell ’76 was the head writer for the late night comedy shows “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He has...

    • Hal Gurnee unbuttons his shirt to welcome spring (1980s) “The Number One is never the best one,” Top Ten viewers routinely complain. But in this case I believe this minimalist ritual, deliberately mundane — with director Hal Gurnee unbuttoning his shirt on an empty set — stands for what the Letterman show could be at its idiosyncratic best.
    • The opening monologue for the first show after 9/11 (2001) “Eloquent,” “quirky,” “bewildered” and “inspiring” are words rarely combined to describe a single speech, but Letterman’s heartfelt and apparently improvised remarks after the terrorist attacks were all those things, and more.
    • Dave devotes an entire show to Warren Zevon (2002) The simpatico relationship between Letterman and Warren Zevon was easy to figure: Both shared a flair for brilliant verbal turns, a taste for dark themes and an intense wry wit.
    • Paul McCartney performs on the marquee (2009) Few television events were as genuinely sublime as Paul McCartney’s return to the Ed Sullivan Theater, where the Beatles made their American TV debut 45 years earlier.
  5. Letterman head writer Steve O'Donnell shares some of his favorite moments, including a showdown between Dave and Leslie Nielsen, an after school special clas...

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  6. Steve O’Donnell was Head Writer both for David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel. He has also written for Chris Rock, Bonnie Hunt, Al Franken, Hannibal Buress, and Norm Macdonald. Other work includes The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Space Ghost.

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