Don Novello

After graduating from the University of Dayton, Novello worked as an advertising copywriter in New York, then joined a San Francisco comedy troupe ("The Chicken Little Comedy Hour") in 1972. He worked as a writer and actor for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (CBS, 1975) and "Van Dyke and Company" (NBC, 1976), before joining "Saturday Night Live" in 1978, playing his first Father Guido Sarducci sketch on crutches (he'd broken his hip …