Jose Chung is a fictional writer, created by Darin Morgan, who appears in The X-Files episode Jose Chung's From Outer Space and the Millennium episode Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense. Chung is played by Charles Nelson Reilly, and is the author of both the titular works in both episodes. The name Jose Chung was an in-joke amongst the X-Files's writers - John Shiban would repeatedly phone the production staff about his unsolicited script, despite the fact such scripts were automatically rejected. The two episodes that feature Chung are among the more light-hearted of both programs. The character is a parody of Jack Cohen, who assisted the series in designing plausible extraterrestrials, with shades of Truman Capote. In both series, Chung — who freely admits that he's exploring the paranormal incidents he writes about purely for the money — exists as a wittily sarcastic and cynical contrast to the more credulous, believing, serious-minded natures of the main protagonists of both series (in particular Fox Mulder); for example, he depicts certain individual aliens as constantly smoking something that looks like (and may be) tobacco and/or marijuana. In his first appearance, Chung turns [ - ]

Jose Chung is a fictional writer, created by Darin Morgan, who appears in The X-Files episode... [ + ]