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Rob Schneider Rob Schneider
Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider went on to a career in feature films,...
Saturday Night Live    
T. Sean Shannon  
T. Sean Shannon is a comedy writer originally from Houston, Texas. As a writer for Saturday Night Live he won an Emmy Award in 2002 (nominated in 2001 & 2003) and a WGA Award in 2001 (nominated in 2001, 2002 and 2003). He is the writer and creator...
Saturday Night Live    
Harry Shearer Shearer in A Mighty Wind
Derek Albion Smalls (born 1941) is a fictional character played by Harry Shearer. He is the bassist for mock rock group Spinal Tap. He co-starred in the hit spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap with guitarists Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and...
Saturday Night Live    
Martin Short Short Shaiman
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He has also starred in several...
Saturday Night Live    
Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedienne, writer, actress, singer, and musician. Although usually credited as Sarah Silverman, she is sometimes credited by her nickname, Big S. Her satirical comedy addresses social...
Saturday Night Live    
Robert Smigel 14414__smigel_l.jpg
Robert Smigel (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor, humorist, comedian and writer known for his Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Smigel was once a member of...
Saturday Night Live    
J. B. Smoove  
J.B. Smoove (born Gerald Angelo Brooks December 16, 1964) is an award-winning American actor and writer best known for his role as "Leon Black" on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He has also had recurring roles on Everybody Hates Chris and Saturday Night Live...
Saturday Night Live    
Terry Southern Terry Southern.jpg
Terry Southern (1 May 1924 – 29 October 1995) was a highly influential American author, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a...
Saturday Night Live    
David Spade David Spade in a Promo Picture for Just Shoot Me
David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an American actor, comedian and television personality who first became famous in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 starred as Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me!. He...
Saturday Night Live    
Jason Sudeikis bios_jason1.jpg
Daniel Jason Sudeikis (born September 18, 1975) (pronounced: suh-DAY-kiss) is an American actor and comedian. Sudeikis was born in Fairfax, Virginia to parents Dan and Cathy, and is of partial Lithuanian descent. He moved to Overland Park, Kansas...
Saturday Night Live    
John Swartzwelder One of the few pictures of John Swartzwelder
John Swartzwelder (born November 16, 1950) is an American comedy writer and novelist, best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons, as well as a number of novels. He is credited with writing the largest number of The...
Saturday Night Live    
Terry Sweeney  
Terry Sweeney (born March 23, 1960) is a American writer, comedian and actor. Sweeney is best known for his appearances as a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live (SNL) during that program's 1985-86 season. Sweeney, who is not related to fellow...
Saturday Night Live    
Jorma Taccone Jorma taccone snl writer photo by christopher peterson
Jorma "Jorm" Christopher Taccone (born March 19, 1977) is an American comedy writer-actor-director. Taccone is one third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. Taccone was born in...
Saturday Night Live    
Jon Vitti Vitti as portrayed in an episode of The Simpsons
Jon Vitti is a writer who is most noted for his writing for the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including Ice Age (2002)...
Saturday Night Live    
Eliot Wald  
Eliot Wald (Born February 10, 1946) was a comedy writer who worked for The Second City improv group in Chicago and for Saturday Night Live before turning to movies. He and a partner, Andrew Kurtzman, wrote scripts for the television movie Hot Paint ...
Saturday Night Live    
Walter Williams  
Walter Williams is a filmmaker and comedy writer, most famous for his "Mr. Bill" shorts that aired on the television series Saturday Night Live. Williams was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the 1970s he worked as a DJ at a French Quarter bar. He...
Saturday Night Live    
Alan Zweibel alan zweibel.jpg
Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950) is a producer and writer on such productions as Saturday Night Live, PBS' Great Performances, and It's Garry Shandling's Show. Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Zweibel grew up in the New York City suburbs of...
Saturday Night Live    
Paul Barosse     Saturday Night Live    
Jim Downey jim downey.jpg
James Downey (born 1952 or 1953) is an American comedy writer and occasional actor. Downey is best known as a long-time writer for Saturday Night Live. Downey attended Harvard University, graduating in 1974 with a degree in Russian. While at Harvard...
Saturday Night Live    
Adam I. Lapidus  
Adam Lapidus is an American television writer, whose credits include Phil of the Future, Full House, Smart Guy, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck and the season four Simpsons episode, "The Front". Lapidus appeared on the DVD...
The Simpsons    
Al Jean Aljean
Al Jean (born January 9, 1961 Detroit, Michigan) is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. During his youth, Jean worked in his father's hardware store in Michigan. He attended the Roeper School in his youth,...
The Simpsons    
Andrew Kreisberg  
Andrew Kreisberg (born April 23, 1971) is an American television writer. His first job was on the short-lived animated sitcom Mission Hill. Since its cancellation, he has written for Justice League, The Simpsons, Hope & Faith and Boston Legal....
The Simpsons    
Bill Oakley Bill Oakley animated on an episode of The Simpsons
Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American television writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. Along with his writing partner Josh Weinstein, Oakley was the executive producer and showrunner during the seventh and eighth seasons. Before...
The Simpsons    
Bill Odenkirk  
Bill Odenkirk (born October 13, 1965 in Naperville, Illinois), is an American comedy writer. He is the brother of American comedian Bob Odenkirk, and worked as a writer, producer and actor on sketch comedy TV show Mr. Show with Bob and David, which...
The Simpsons    
Billy Kimball  
Billy Kimball is an American writer and producer. He was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Kimball began his career writing for the HBO series Not Necessarily the News. He was the...
The Simpsons    
Bob Bendetson  
Bob Bendetson is an American television writer and producer. He has written for a number of TV series, including ALF, Home Improvement and two episodes for The Simpsons (season 12's "Simpsons Tall Tales" [the "Connie Appleseed" parody] and season 13...
The Simpsons    
Bob Kushell  
Bob Kushell is a writer and producer for The Simpsons. As of December 2008, Kushell began hosting his own talk show, Anytime with Bob Kushell, on Crackle. Jake in Progress Hidden Hills Grounded for Life Normal, Ohio The First Gentleman 3rd Rock from...
The Simpsons    
Brent Forrester  
Brent Forrester is an American television writer. He has written for The Ben Stiller Show, The Simpsons, Mr. Show with Bob and David, King of the Hill, The Office and Undeclared. Forrester also showed some voice talent by doing the voice of Leon the...
The Simpsons    
Brian Kelley  
Brian Kelley is an American television writer. He has written for Conan O'Brien, SNL, Newsradio, Clerks, Futurama, Joey and The Simpsons. He has written the following episodes: He wrote the following episode: "Love's Labours Lost in Space"
The Simpsons    
Brian Scully  
Brian Scully (born West Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American television writer and producer. He has written episodes for The Simpsons and Complete Savages. He has produced The Drew Carey Show and The Pitts. He is the older brother of long-time...
The Simpsons    
Carolyn Omine CarolynOmineJuly08
Carolyn Omine is an American television writer. She has written for Full House, The Parent 'Hood and The Simpsons. She was credited as an executive producer by the Simpsons' 17th season, although this changed to a producer in the 18th. Omine has...
The Simpsons    
Conan O'Brien Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host and comedian. He is the host of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC. Before The Tonight Show, O'Brien was...
The Simpsons    
Dan Castellaneta Dan Castellaneta cropped
Daniel Louis "Dan" Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an American film, theatre and television actor, comedian, voice artist and television writer. Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons,...
The Simpsons    
Dan Greaney  
Dan Greaney is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons. He was hired during the show's seventh season, but left after season eleven. He returned to the Simpsons staff during the thirteenth season. According to the DVD...
The Simpsons    
Dan McGrath  
Dan McGrath is an American television writer. He has written for Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Mission Hill (where he made a cameo appearance as a character in a parody of Ingmar Bergman films), The PJs and King of the Hill. He wrote (or co...
The Simpsons    
Dana Gould  
Dana Gould (born August 24, 1964) is an American comedian and comedy writer born and raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts. His upbringing in the "weird little" factory town and the backward eccentricities of his extended family lent themselves to his...
The Simpsons    
Daniel Chun  
Daniel Chun is an American comedy writer. He now writes for The Simpsons, where he currently carries the title of co-executive producer. Chun has also contributed to TNR.com, 02138 Magazine, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Vitals...
The Simpsons    
David M. Stern Davidmstern
David M. Stern is an American television writer. He is the brother of actor Daniel Stern, and worked with his brother on The Wonder Years. He has also written several episodes of The Simpsons and Monk. He was also a production assistant on the film...
The Simpsons    
David Mirkin A seated man wearing a cap smiles as he looks into the distance. His hands are crossed.
David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer, known for his work on The Simpsons. He is a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University. He has won several...
The Simpsons    
David Richardson  
David Richardson is a television writer who has written for The Simpsons (Homer Loves Flanders), Malcolm in the Middle, and Empty Nest. As writer:
The Simpsons    
David Sacks  
David Sacks is a television writer and producer. His writing and producing credits include The Simpsons, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Malcolm in the Middle, The Tick and Murphy Brown. The only Simpsons episode Sacks has written is the season six episode...
The Simpsons    
David X. Cohen David X. Cohen in a Futurama DVD Easter Egg on a Season 3 Disc about A Tale of Two Santas
David Samuel Cohen (born July 13, 1966), better known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons, and he is the head writer and executive producer of Futurama. Cohen was born and known pre-Futurama as David...
The Simpsons    
Deb Lacusta  
Deb Lacusta (born Deborah Lacusta in 1958) is an American television writer and the wife of The Simpsons star Dan Castellaneta (who voices Homer Simpson along with various other characters on the The Simpsons). She has co-written several episodes of...
The Simpsons    
Don Payne DonPayneJuly08
Don Payne is a writer on The Simpsons. Many of his episodes are co-written with John Frink. Recently he has moved into screenwriting. So far he has written My Super Ex-Girlfriend and co-written Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He was...
The Simpsons    
Donick Cary  
Donick Cary is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons, Just Shoot Me!, Complete Savages, Late Night with David Letterman and served as head writer on The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show. He also co-wrote the two hour 2005 TV...
The Simpsons    
Frank Mula  
Frank Mula is an American television writer. He has written for Cosby, Madame's Place, Grand, The Simpsons and created the series, Local Heroes, which lasted 7 episodes. He has written the following episodes:
The Simpsons    
George Meyer George Meyer caricatured on The Simpsons episode "Special Edna", the show he has worked on since 1989
George A. Meyer (born 1956) is an American producer and writer. Raised in Tucson, Arizona in a Roman Catholic family, Meyer attended Harvard University. There, after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon, he graduated in 1978 with a degree in...
The Simpsons    
Greg Daniels greg daniels.jpg
Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. Daniels said he became interested in comedy by watching Monty Python's Flying Circus as a child, as well as by reading books by humorist S. J. Perelman at age 11. Daniels...
The Simpsons    
Howard Gewirtz  
Howard Gewirtz is an American television writer, whose credits include Taxi, The Larry Sanders Show, Just Shoot Me, Wings, Oliver Beene, Everybody Hates Chris and The Simpsons.
The Simpsons    
Ian Maxtone-Graham Ian Maxtone-Graham caricatured on The Simpsons, where he has worked since 1994
Ian Maxtone-Graham (born on July 3, 1959 in New York City) is an American television writer and producer. He has written for Saturday Night Live (1992-1995) and The Simpsons (1995-present), and has also served as a co-executive producer and...
The Simpsons    
J. Stewart Burns  
J. Stewart Burns is a television writer and producer most notable for his work on Unhappily Ever After, The Simpsons and Futurama. Noted in the DVD commentaries of The Deep South and Roswell That Ends Well, Stewart studied and has a M.S in...
The Simpsons    
Jace Richdale  
Jace Richdale is an American producer and writer. He served as co-executive producer for seasons 5 and 6 of The Simpsons and wrote the season five episode "Burns' Heir". He was a part of the Simpsons writing staff during seasons 5, 6, 9 and 10....
The Simpsons    
James L. Brooks James L. Brooks
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York...
The Simpsons    
Jay Kogen  
Jay Steven Kogen is an American comedy writer. He has co-written several episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons along with former writing partner Wallace Wolodarsky. Since then, he has written for several shows, including an Emmy Award...
The Simpsons    
Jeff Martin Jeff Martin
Jeff Martin was a writer for The Simpsons during the first four seasons. He attended Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, as have many other Simpsons writers. He left along with most of the original staff in 1993, and has...
The Simpsons    
Jeff Westbrook  
Jeff Westbrook is a TV writer best known for his work on The Simpsons and Futurama, for which he is a two-time winner of the WGA Award. Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a successful algorithms researcher. After majoring in physics and...
The Simpsons    
Jeffrey Ventimilia  
Jeffrey Ventimilia is a television writer. Ventimilia wrote The Simpsons episodes "'Round Springfield" and "Simpson Tide" (with Joshua Sternin as his co-writer). Other credits include Murphy Brown, That '70s Show, and The Critic.
The Simpsons    
Jennifer Crittenden  
Jennifer Crittenden (born 1969) is a television sitcom writer, who was educated at The Thacher School in Ojai, California and graduated from Wesleyan University. She has written episodes for several popular television shows of the 1990s, including...
The Simpsons    
Joel H. Cohen  
Joel H. Cohen (born in Calgary) is a writer for Saturday Night Live, Suddenly Susan and The Simpsons. He is the older brother of one-time Simpsons writer Robert Cohen, who penned the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's". He also served as a script...
The Simpsons    
John Frink  
John Frink (born 1959, Whitesboro, New York) is an American producer and writer who is most noted for having a namesake on The Simpsons. The character has existed long before Frink joined the writing staff. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston,...
The Simpsons    
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