Only an SNL Wake Could Be This Wild
It is unusual for a wake to be described as “the hippest party in New York”—in New York, no less.
But the subject of mourning, Michael O’Donoghue, the first head writer at Saturday Night Live—and by far the most darkly inventive—would have wanted it that way.
After complaining of fierce migraines for years, O’Donoghue died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage on November 8, 1994. The wake was organized by Cheryl Hardwick, O’Donoghue’s widow and former musical director of SNL, in the couple’s Chelsea apartment.
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