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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.[1]
Kimball began his career writing for the HBO series Not Necessarily the News. He was the host and executive producer of the satiric game show "Clash!" and the co-host (with Denis Leary) of the talk show "AfterDrive" both on the Ha! Network, a predecessor of Comedy Central.
As a writer, Kimball has worked on Saturday Night Live," Cedric the Entertainer Presents, and Lateline." He has written the Independent Spirit Awards since 2002 and been a producer on the show since 2005.[2] He has written five episodes of "The Simpsons."
Kimball was the original executive producer of "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" from 1999 to 2001.[2]
He has been nominated for an Emmy Award for writing[3] and won the CableAce Award for Best Documentary. His Simpsons' episode "24 Minutes" received an Annie Award in 2007 for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production.[4] He won the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script for Comedy/Variety Special for the 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards.[4]
In 1994, he served as a senior manager for the United States Agency for International Development's Market Reform Project in Kiev, Ukraine.[1][5]
Kimball has a long association with Al Franken. He was the executive producer of "InDecision '92," Comedy Central's coverage of the 1992 United States Presidential Election, which was anchored by Franken.[3] From 2005 to 2007, he was the executive producer of The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio and Sundance Channel.
In 2009, Kimball began to appear as a commentator on "The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest..." on TruTV. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the on-line humor magazine The Old Yorker.[6]
He is married to the former Alexandra Manuela Vargas Hamilton[7] and has two daughters.
Simpsons episodes written by Kimball
- 24 Minutes (co-written with Ian Maxtone-Graham)
- Smoke on the Daughter
- Dangerous Curves (co-written with Ian Maxtone-Graham)
- Gone Maggie Gone (co-written with Ian Maxtone-Graham)
References
- ^ a b "Can Harvard Charmer Billy Kimball Make Craig Kilborn a CBS Star?". The New York Observer. http://www.observer.com/node/41272. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ^ a b "Still a bit of an indie kid at 20". The Los Angeles Times. http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/spirit/env-et-indie-26feb26,0,6447891.story. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ a b "Billy Kimball - Awards". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1269014/awards. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ a b "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)". Annie Awards. http://annieawards.org/35thwinners.html. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
- ^ "THE NIGHT; A Tribute, So Altmanesque". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/01/style/the-night-a-tribute-so-altmanesque.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/M/Motion%20Pictures. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ "Billy Kimball". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/billy-kimball/. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Alexandra Hamilton, Billy Kimball". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/style/weddings-celebrations-alexandra-hamilton-billy-kimball.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
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