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  1. Michael O'Donoghue. 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 ...

  2. May 3, 2022 · 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.

  3. Aug 22, 2014 · Mr. Mike’s ‘SNL’ Nightmare. Meet Michael O'Donoghue: The angriest, craziest man to ever hate — but never really leave — 'Saturday Night Live'. by Tom Carson on August 22, 2014. R ight from the start and in crucial ways, Saturday Night Live wasn’t really the radical break with earlier TV comedy it’s sometimes cracked up to be.

  4. 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," died ...

  5. Nov 4, 2014 · Aside from his work on SNL, O’Donoghue had small roles as an actor in Manhattan (1979), Head Office (1985), Wall Street (1987), and The Suicide Club (1988), and he actually wrote country songs ...

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  6. Jun 25, 2024 · Nov 10, 1994. 0. 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.

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  8. Michael O'Donoghue was born on 5 January 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.

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