![]() ![]() He’s certainly worth it.Īnyway, O’Donoghue first made his name with his collaboration “The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist”. You either have to collect the original magazines, or the earliest “National Lampoon” best of anthologies. ![]() There isn’t a collection of his best work. Yet his erudition, his mastery of linguistic style, his surrealism, his accurate satirisation of current culture, and also his penchant for savage black humour exposing the worst of human nature up to and including genocide, all make him a one-man equivalent of Monty Python at its best. ![]() To say I could almost love him, given his offensive propensities, might seem an extreme, let alone unlikely, reaction. Michael O’Donoghue was the great, wonderful marvellous revelation of my first explorations into “National Lampoon” magazine. ![]()
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