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Michael O'Donoghue

Michael O'Donoghue (January 5, 1940 – November 8, 1994) was 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.

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Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

Anyway, Dreadful, Roach, Roaches, Television, Want

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

Chasing, Lewis, Madagascar, Roaches, Would Be

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

Hands, Heart, Living, Revenge

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

Government, Hands, Utah

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.

Cockroaches, Desire, Frightening, Scary, Science

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.

Beautiful, Becoming, Flying, Man, Men

Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture.

Cat, Cats, Manufacture, Products, Real, Simple

Licorice is the liver of candy.

Candy, Licorice, Liver

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.

Allen, Events, Filming, Mysterious, Strange, Whole

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

Gift, Given, God, Life

It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

Disaster, Ends, Guess, Movie, World

You only live once and, usually, not even then.

Live, Usually, You Only Live Once

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

Fear, Insects, Scary, Secret

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

Humor, Mountain, Rushmore, Southern, Terry, Would Be

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.

Flesh, Like, Move, Moving, Real, Rippling

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.

Button, Buttons, Explode, Television, Thinking

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

Big, Bigs, Life Is, Make, Minefields, Place

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Comedy, Laughing, Lowest, Making, People

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

Aside, Come, Important, Nothing, Rice, San Francisco