THE SIMPSONS

AL JEAN

Executive Producer

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Emmy Award-winning producer/writer Al Jean has worked on THE SIMPSONS since it became a series in 1989. He has been showrunner for 22 seasons and has received a credit on more than 600 episodes. Currently, he serves as executive producer and showrunner. In addition to nine Emmy Awards, he has won two coveted Peabody Awards and was nominated for two Golden Globes. He also served as writer and producer on “The Simpsons Movie” (which took in more than $525 million worldwide), working heavily on the film throughout its entire four-year production. He also was producer and writer on the Academy Award-nominated short film “The Longest Daycare” and the 2020 short “Playdate With Destiny.” In 2021, he wrote and produced the streaming shorts “The Force Awakens From Its Nap” (nominated for an Emmy) and “The Good, the Bart and the Loki.”

Jean co-created “The Critic” and “Teen Angel” and served as producer on “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” for which he won three CableACE Awards. Other television credits include “The PJ’s,” “Alf” and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”

Episodes of THE SIMPSONS Jean has written or co-written include “Moaning Lisa,” “The Way We Was,” “Treehouse of Horror II & III,” “Stark Raving Dad,” “Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (annoyed grunt) cious,” “Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder,” “Day of the Jackanapes,” “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas,” “Mr. Lisa’s Opus,” “Daddicus Finch” and the Emmy Award-winning “HOMR.”

Jean also co-wrote Funny or Die’s “SNL Presidential Reunion Video” which is credited with helping establish the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. A graduate of Harvard University, Jean served as vice president of the college’s humor magazine, “The Harvard Lampoon.”

 

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Emmy Award-winning producer/writer Al Jean has worked on THE SIMPSONS since it became a series in 1989. He has been showrunner for 22 seasons and has received a credit on more than 600 episodes. Currently, he serves as executive producer and showrunner. In addition to nine Emmy Awards, he has won two coveted Peabody Awards and was nominated for two Golden Globes. He also served as writer and producer on “The Simpsons Movie” (which took in more than $525 million worldwide), working heavily on the film throughout its entire four-year production. He also was producer and writer on the Academy Award-nominated short film “The Longest Daycare” and the 2020 short “Playdate With Destiny.” In 2021, he wrote and produced the streaming shorts “The Force Awakens From Its Nap” (nominated for an Emmy) and “The Good, the Bart and the Loki.”

Jean co-created “The Critic” and “Teen Angel” and served as producer on “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” for which he won three CableACE Awards. Other television credits include “The PJ’s,” “Alf” and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”

Episodes of THE SIMPSONS Jean has written or co-written include “Moaning Lisa,” “The Way We Was,” “Treehouse of Horror II & III,” “Stark Raving Dad,” “Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (annoyed grunt) cious,” “Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder,” “Day of the Jackanapes,” “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas,” “Mr. Lisa’s Opus,” “Daddicus Finch” and the Emmy Award-winning “HOMR.”

Jean also co-wrote Funny or Die’s “SNL Presidential Reunion Video” which is credited with helping establish the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. A graduate of Harvard University, Jean served as vice president of the college’s humor magazine, “The Harvard Lampoon.”