Michael O'Donoghue was a frequent contributor to Evergreen Review. He was an author, playwright and filmmaker. He was a major writer at National Lampoon as well as one of the original writers at Saturday Night Live and creator of some of its funniest black comedy sketches. He also occasionally appeared on camera, on sketches like Mr. Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Stories. His 1979 television special Mr. Mike's Mondo Video was dropped because of censorship concerns and became a theatrical film instead. Michael O'Donoghue died in 1994.