News

It was in the "Futurama" writers' room where he heard some advice from David X. Cohen, the "Futurama" co-creator who had gotten his start on "The Simpsons." As Ziglar explained: ...
Conan O'Brien is sharing a glimpse into what it was really like working in The Simpsons writers' room during the beloved animated series' halcyon days. On a recent episode of his Conan O'Brien ...
Mimi Pond, the writer of the first-broadcast episode of “The Simpsons,” says she was shut out of the Fox cartoon’s writers’ room because then-showrunner Sam Simon only wanted men writers.
Stern should know, since he is a veteran of The Simpsons’ writers’ room, which created and continues to create one of the funniest and most original series in television history.
Mimi Pond never received the full respect she deserved. Though primarily a cartoonist and writer, she's responsible for writing the first ever full-length broadcast episode of The Simpsons in 1989 ...
Ultimately, Swartzwelder's goal in the "Simpsons" writers room was to make his fellow comedy writers laugh. "That was the audience. Luckily, a lot of other people, both kids and adults, liked the ...
Various times in the writers room, time travelers appear, tell us things, just to put in the show and mess with people’s minds, and it works perfectly!” 7 Lisa Simpson on “The Simpsons” as ...
Here’s how its writers keep things fresh (CNN) — Toward the end of its 35th season, “The Simpsons” made a move that rankled some fans: It killed a longtime resident of Springfield. Posted ...
Keeping “The Simpsons” entertaining after 35 seasons is no small feat. Here’s how its writers keep the longest-running animated comedy in TV history hilarious and heartfelt.
So, over the last few seasons, the show has hired new writers who grew up watching it –– people like Loni Steele Sosthand, Cesar Mazariegos and Broti Gupta –– to share the room with ...