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As a television writer, O'Keefe was responsible for popularizing the holiday Festivus on the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike". [4] Festivus had been invented in the 1960s by O'Keefe's father, editor and author Daniel O'Keefe (1928–2012). In 2005, Dan O'Keefe published a book about the holiday and its history, titled The Real Festivus.
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Dec 3, 2021 · "Seinfeld" writer Dan O’Keefe revealed how the idea of Festivus came to fruition. The holiday was actually inspired by his father, "Reader's Digest" editor Daniel O'Keefe.
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Jan 1, 2005 · The O'Keefe family actually celebrated Festivus annually during the 1970's and 80's while Dan O'Keefe and his two younger brothers were growing up. But as the author explains in The Real Festivus, the holiday they observed was rather different from--if no less bizarre than--the celebration popularized on television:
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O'Keefe's father, Daniel O'Keefe Sr., who was an editor at Readers Digest, came up with the holiday in 1966. It marked the occasion of Daniel's first date with soon-to-be fiancée Deborah. The ...
Daniel and Deborah O'Keefe married in 1963. She is a writer, publishing numerous magazine articles, as well as the books Good Girl Messages and Readers in Wonderland, works of literary criticism. The couple had three sons, each of whom became a writer and or composer/lyricist: Dan O'Keefe, Laurence O'Keefe, and Mark O'Keefe. [citation needed]
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