Al Jean is an American writer and producer best known as a longtime showrunner and executive producer of The Simpsons. He has a credit on over 600 episodes and been showrunner for 25+ seasons. In addition to nine Emmy Awards, he has won two coveted Peabody Awards and was nominated for two Golden Globes. He is regarded as one of the most influential comedy writers in television history. He also created the Critic In the podcast we chat about being wanted by the FBI, the Simpsons, creating new shows, writing for The Harvard Lampon, working on Johnny Carson, going to Harvard at 16, The Critic, leadership, negative feedback, Hollywood reboots, Garry Shandling’s show, moving forward plus plenty more!
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