Mark O'Donnell
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Mark O'Donnell (July 19, 1954 – August 6, 2012) was an American writer and comedian.
Early life
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1976. He was a member of The Harvard Lampoon, where he served as the Ibis's head. He appeared in 1974 and coproduced a famous Sports Illustrated Lampoon parody (among others) (with Patricia Marx, Ian Frazier, and his twin brother Steve O'Donnell). Steve and his twin brother Steve portrayed the Dromio twins, Siamese twins who are naturally gifted at football, in addition to writing for the parody. He was the writer and librettist for three Hasty Pudding musicals for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals company.
Career
The 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical by O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, who wrote the 2007 film version. The pair also worked on another John Waters musical version, Cry-Baby, for which they received a 2008 Tony Award.
His plays include That's It, Folks!
Friends; The Nice and the Nasty; Strangers on Earth; Vertigo Park; and the musical Tots in Tinseltown. Scapin, a 1997 play based on Molière's original text, was written by Bill Irwin and Margaret Irwin.Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales are among his books, as well as two novels, Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Disgust.
He contributed to all three branches of George Meyer's Army Man, as well as to The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Spy. "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion," a 1980 article he wrote for Esquire, was both widely circulated ("1). Anybody suspended in space will remain suspended in space until made aware of its situation," a statement that has been widely circulated by supporters of cartoon physics.
O'Donnell was also a writer for the Saturday Night Live 1981-2011 season, under the direction of head writer Michael O'Donoghue. He wrote with Terry Southern on Saturday Night Live.
Despite being a proud Poonie, O'Donnell was a long-serving Yale Journal adviser and taught a popular comedy-writing course at Yale University.
O'Donnell was the identical twin of television writer Steve O'Donnell. Mark was gay while his twin brother is straight.