Michael O'Donoghue
Writer / Actor
Michael O'Donoghue wrote for National Lampoon during the underground humor magazine's 1970s glory days. That led to a writing job on the premiere season of Saturday Night Live, where he appeared on-camera in some of his own sketches. Revered for his oddball and subversive humor, O'Donoghue became a kind of elder statesman for the show. He also wrote the movie Scrooged.Extra credit: O'Donoghue had bit parts in the movies Manhattan (1979, with Woody Allen) and Wall Street (1987, with Michael Douglas)... Another celebrated National Lampoon writer was Douglas Kenney.
O'Donoghue is reunited with John Belushi in our loop on the Saturday Night Live Curse.
Blog posts mentioning Michael O'Donoghue:
Munch on 'The Wire'
Four Good Links
A Proper Goodbye to Mr. Mike
Nostalgic obituary from a SNL fan page
Michael O'Donoghue Filmography
From the Internet Movie Database
Lampoon People
Good personal tidbits from a fan site for National Lampoon
Michael O'Donoghue
A fan reprints some of O'Donoghue's funny, adult-oriented columns
Vital Stats
Birth
Birthplace
Death
8 November 1994
(cerebral hemorrhage, age 54)
Best Known As
Writer / performer on Saturday Night Live
