SNL skit WAS guilty - of not being funny. Here's Ray Charles and Michael O'Donoghue doing it RIGHT

[blm]

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77emrmike.phtml


Brother Ray meets Mr. Mike. THIS is real comedy courage from both Mr. Mike AND Ray Charles.

THIS is how it's done....with integrity.

[meegbear]

1. ...

:spray:

[blm]

3. heheh...

you need this....M O'D loved bears...found them funny. Wolverines, too.

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=600995&author=Odonoghue%2C+Michael&browse=1&qsort=p&matches=1&cm_sp=works*listing*buyused

[Dennis Donovan]

7. I lost my fingertips to Mr Mike's wolverines...

:D

[blm]

10. heheh...first words ever spoken on SNL. Many of us lost our SNL virginity to Mr. Mike's wolverines.

When comedy was still dangerous.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Michael O'Donoghue...

A genius. THE heart and THE soul of SNL v1.0.:thumbsup:

[kwassa]

4. I could never stand his sorry ass.

Worst thing about the original show, which had it's own share of crappy skits.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. That whooshing sound...

...is Mr Mike zooming right over your head.:eyes:

[kwassa]

11. no, he was just stupid and banal

most of his humor depended on grossness, which was a fault of much humor of that era.

[mitchum]

13. M. O'Donoghue..."Making them laugh is easy; making them think is hard"

And he excelled at both.
I think you're seriously underestimating O'Donoghue

[blm]

14. You couldn't be further from truth. Banal and gross is exactly the opposite of O'Donoghue's legacy

to humor.

[blm]

6. PJ O'Rourke, is that you?

.

[mitchum]

8. Two geniuses at work

[blm]

9. Exactly...I heard back in the day this was a favorite skit for many of the old cast.

They'd get a kick out of how far O'Donoghue could take this type of humor.

[mitchum]

12. I reread "How To Write Good" just last week

He was indeed a genius, but you already know that