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
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.
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We're using the science fiction cliches of the 1950s to set the mind off in a certain direction, then sabotage it with a surprise.
essence seal
The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.
came gods insect knew title war
Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.
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I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad head. That's what you become out there: a guacamole dip.
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Any good humor is sophomoric. 'Sophomoric' is the liberal word for funny.
interferes takes therapy
I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.
revenge heart hands
Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
you-only-live-once
You only live once and, usually, not even then.
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.
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Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.
given
Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?
candy liver
Licorice is the liver of candy.
southern mountain would-be
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from