Dono (comedian)

Dono was also a novelist. Until his death in 2001, he had written five books with four of them taking the storyline of a student's journey. His first novel was Balada Paijo which was published in 1987. In 2001, Dono wrote his last novel entitled Senggol Kanan Senggol Kiri. However, for one reason, Dono's last novel was published in 2009 or eight years after Dono died. In this book, Dono leaves the theme of student life and takes the theme of an employee's household problems.

Dono died on 30 December 2001 at the Santo Carolus Hospital due to a tumor in the buttocks that had spread to end-stage lung cancer and attacked the liver. Dono's body was buried at the Tanah Kusir public cemetery, Jakarta in the next day.

After the production of Warkop was taken over by Parkit Film, then Dono played the character "Dono" who is described as always having bad luck in everyday life but always lucky in terms of attracting the charm of beautiful women. He also got the nickname "The Bemo" because of his bemo-like face. Dono himself once said in an interview in 1995 that "if the character has too much bad luck maybe no one will watch my film, that's why I'm always paired with beautiful actresses".

Dono met his future wife, Titi Kusumawardhani, during the orientation period at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Indonesia. When Dono was in junior high school, his family played jailangkung and asked who Dono's future wife would be. The spirit in Jalangkung then said the name of Dono's mate was Titi Kusumawardhani from Madiun. Several years later the jailangkung prediction proved to be true. Dono and Titi then married in 1977 and had three children, namely Andika Aria Sena, Damar Canggih Wicaksono dan Satrio Sarwo Trengginas. Titi died in 1997 due to breast cancer.

Dono then studied at the University of Indonesia majoring in sociology. While studying, Dono was already actively working in several newspapers, including Tribune and Salemba, mainly as a caricaturist. Both print media stopped publishing in 1974. Dono then joined the Warung Kopi Prambors group, which was founded a year earlier with Kasino, Indro and Nanu. They fill the radio show that is broadcast every Thursday night.

Wahjoe Sardono (EYD: Wahyu Sardono, 30 September 1951 – 30 December 2001), commonly called as Dono Warkop, was an Indonesian actor, comedian and lecturer who was a member of the Warkop group.