Michael O'Donoghue
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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
hottest salad york
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.
funny good humor liberal word
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.
you-only-live-once
You only live once and, usually, not even then.
southern mountain would-be
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
scary desire cockroaches
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.
scary secret insects
Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.