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Sean Kelly (writer)
Seán Kelly (July 22, 1940 – July 11, 2022) was a Canadian humorist and writer.
Sean was born on a farm in Cushing, Quebec, on July 22, 1940. After graduating from Loyola College he worked as a radio actor, advertising copywriter, schoolteacher and on a quiz show.
In 1967, he co-wrote Expo Inside Out, a bestselling but highly unofficial guide to the Montreal World's Fair. In 1972, he migrated to New York City to co-write the infamous off-Broadway mock rock musical Lemmings. He received the Drama Desk Award for his lyrics.
He worked at National Lampoon from 1971 until 1978, becoming an editor and later co-editor-in-chief in 1975. While at the National Lampoon, he co-wrote with Michel Choquette the satirical comic strip Son-O-God, about "a WASP superhero who fights Catholicism", illustrated by Neal Adams.
In 1977, Kelly was a founding editor of the "adult fantasy magazine" Heavy Metal (which was published by National Lampoon), lasting as editor until August 1979. Kelly returned to National Lampoon as a senior editor in 1981 and until 1984 he guided its staff.
As a freelancer, he was eclectic; published in Harper's Bazaar, Benetton's Colors, Interview, Irish America, the Old Farmer's Almanac, Playboy, Spy, The Village Voice, and The Quarterly of Joyce Studies. He reviewed many children's books for The New York Times.
Of his contribution to the Off-Broadway musical Diamonds (1984), Christian Science Monitor critic John Beaufort wrote, "Certainly the most exotic parody of the occasion is Sean Kelly's hilarious Kasi Atta Batt, which turns out to be a Japanese Kabuki version, complete with lion dancer and samurai, of the lament known to untutored Western ears as Casey at the Bat."
He worked extensively in children’s television: for CBS's Young People's Concerts and Drawing Power, for the Fox series Goosebumps and The Magic School Bus, and for the PBS series Shining Time Station and Noddy and Friends. His only Emmy (2004) was for the early literacy PBS series, Between the Lions.
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Sean Kelly (writer)
Seán Kelly (July 22, 1940 – July 11, 2022) was a Canadian humorist and writer.
Sean was born on a farm in Cushing, Quebec, on July 22, 1940. After graduating from Loyola College he worked as a radio actor, advertising copywriter, schoolteacher and on a quiz show.
In 1967, he co-wrote Expo Inside Out, a bestselling but highly unofficial guide to the Montreal World's Fair. In 1972, he migrated to New York City to co-write the infamous off-Broadway mock rock musical Lemmings. He received the Drama Desk Award for his lyrics.
He worked at National Lampoon from 1971 until 1978, becoming an editor and later co-editor-in-chief in 1975. While at the National Lampoon, he co-wrote with Michel Choquette the satirical comic strip Son-O-God, about "a WASP superhero who fights Catholicism", illustrated by Neal Adams.
In 1977, Kelly was a founding editor of the "adult fantasy magazine" Heavy Metal (which was published by National Lampoon), lasting as editor until August 1979. Kelly returned to National Lampoon as a senior editor in 1981 and until 1984 he guided its staff.
As a freelancer, he was eclectic; published in Harper's Bazaar, Benetton's Colors, Interview, Irish America, the Old Farmer's Almanac, Playboy, Spy, The Village Voice, and The Quarterly of Joyce Studies. He reviewed many children's books for The New York Times.
Of his contribution to the Off-Broadway musical Diamonds (1984), Christian Science Monitor critic John Beaufort wrote, "Certainly the most exotic parody of the occasion is Sean Kelly's hilarious Kasi Atta Batt, which turns out to be a Japanese Kabuki version, complete with lion dancer and samurai, of the lament known to untutored Western ears as Casey at the Bat."
He worked extensively in children’s television: for CBS's Young People's Concerts and Drawing Power, for the Fox series Goosebumps and The Magic School Bus, and for the PBS series Shining Time Station and Noddy and Friends. His only Emmy (2004) was for the early literacy PBS series, Between the Lions.