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A Second City star hailing from Chicago, will be joining the brilliant writing staff of ‘Saturday Night Live’ this fall.
Michael Patrick O’Brien, is now starring in the Second City production, ‘America All Better!,’ in the windy city, but will be heading to New York in the fall to write for NBC’s 35th season of SNL.
O’Brien performed with the Second City touring company and the iO team the Reckoning before joining the show’s cast. According to the Chicago Sun Times, O’Brien teamed with Peter Grosz, a writer with the famed ‘Colbert Report’ in a widely praised iO sketch group entitled Misled.
The new season of SNL begins on Sept. 17, when ‘Weekend Update Thursdays’ airs, hailing the return of Amy Poehler for the first two episodes.
You can see O'Brien below in one of his short creations called 'Pratkour':
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