From the twisted genius behind Saturday Night Live’s early years... Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video is the wildly demented comedy from the mind of National Lampoon’s and Saturday Night Live’s notoriously funny writer/performer Michael O’Donoghue. And like most of O’Donoghue’s humor, it was years ahead of its time. Originally conceived in 1979 as a television special slotted for one of SNL’s hiatuses—with much of the SNL cast on board—it was summarily rejected by NBC as too outrageous for broadcast.