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
scary secret insects
Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
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.
beautiful men flying
The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.
events strange mysterious
Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.
san-francisco important rice
Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.
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.
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.