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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 · And The Lampoon and Michael O’Donoghue were a match made in heaven. 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. Nov 4, 2014 · Learn about the life and work of Michael O’Donoghue, one of comedy’s most influential and controversial figures. From his early plays and comics to his groundbreaking sketches and characters on SNL, O’Donoghue pushed the boundaries of humor with his dark and dangerous style.

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  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. 6 days ago · 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.

  6. Michael O'Donoghue was a writer and actor who worked on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and Manhattan. He was born in 1940, married twice and died in 1994.

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  8. 38 minutes ago · Dick Ebersol, who replaced Ms. Doumanian as producer, hired Mr. Tischler as a supervisory producer in the spring of 1981 at the suggestion of the dark and temperamental Michael O’Donoghue, a ...

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