This small, intense actor is best identified with the role which brought him to fame on "Saturday Night Live" in the 1970s: the irreverent priest Father Guido Sarducci, "gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano".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
