Michael Patrick O'Brien

Michael Patrick O'Brien is an American comedian, actor and writer. Born in 1976 in Blissfield, Michigan, he studied film-video at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1999 and running a monthly comedy newspaper called The Anti-Daily while there. He then moved to Chicago for improv and sketch classes, performed with The Reckoning at iO Chicago, and spent a year in Second City's mainstage company. He wrote for Saturday Night Live for seven seasons beginning in 2009, and was also a featured player during the 2013 to 2014 season; he stayed on as a writer through 2015, contributing short films under the banner A Mike O'Brien Picture. In 2011 he introduced the comedy routine 7 Minutes in Heaven, and in 2015 he released the sketch album Tasty Radio. He created A.P. Bio in 2018, which NBC aired for two seasons before it was revived on Peacock for two more.