Michael O'Donoghue
Michael O'Donoghue
Michael O'Donoghuewas an American writer and performer. He was known for his dark and destructive style of comedy and humor, was a major contributor to National Lampoon magazine, and was the first head writer of Saturday Night Live. He was also the first performer to utter a line on that series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth5 January 1940
CountryUnited States of America
san-francisco important rice
Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.
laughing people comedy
Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.
southern mountain would-be
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
candy liver
Licorice is the liver of candy.
thinking buttons television
I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.
given
Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?
life-is bigs minefields
Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.
you-only-live-once
You only live once and, usually, not even then.
revenge heart hands
Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
hands utah government
Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.
powerful quite
They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that's very powerful and mythic. And you don't quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements.
Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.
people pick remind screaming table toss tv
One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.
real moving flesh
It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.