susan, you and michael had known each other for 25 years before getting together. i was smitten when he decided to put his attentions toward me. I was ike, i'd be an idiot not to be with this humani'm curious to know what happens when two comedy writers get together and get married. What is that like? Wer were people in stitches over your vows? He's the writer in the family. And then you have to kind of discover what was for fast. Michael would write and re write and then flip it around and then say,. if this joke was easier, iean, he was very tactical about that.
Susan Messing and Michael McCarthy were a beloved couple in the Chicago comedy scene. Michael passed away from cancer in 2020. As part of Susan’s grieving process, she began to sift through the 50 or so boxes of his writing that he had left behind for her. What followed was a complicated grief.
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