Mike Reiss

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Mike Reiss

Michael "Mike" Reiss (born September 15, 1959) is an American television comedy writer.

Life and career

He was born to a Jewish family^{[citation needed]} in Bristol, Connecticut. Reiss attended Harvard University^[1] and was co-president of the Harvard Lampoon with Jon Vitti. He has frequently collaborated with his writing partner Al Jean as a writer for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and as writers/producers for many episodes of The Simpsons. The duo created and executive produced Teen Angel, which was canceled in its first season.

Independent works

Along with director Xeth Feinberg, in 2000 Reiss independently produced Hard Drinkin' Lincoln, a series of 16 flash animation cartoons for Icebox.com.^[2]

Later, Reiss collaborated with Feinberg again to independently produce a short internet cartoon series entitled Queer Duck for Icebox.com. In 2002, the series was picked up by Showtime, where it aired as a supporting feature to Queer as Folk. Queer Duck: the Movie was released on DVD on July 18, 2006. The feature film reunites the Queer Duck cast. He wrote My Life in Ruins, a critically panned film released in June 2009. As a professional speaker, Reiss has lectured on comedy and The Simpsons at colleges.

He has published six children's books, including How Murray Saved Christmas, published by Penguin, and City of Hamburgers, published by Inkwater Press. He also won an Edgar Award for his mystery story "Cro-Magnon PI". He was a consulting producer on The Oblongs.

Writing credits

The Simpsons episodes

The following is a list of episodes of The Simpsons Reiss has written with Al Jean:

• "There's No Disgrace Like Home"
• "Moaning Lisa"
• "The Telltale Head" (with Matt Groening and Sam Simon)
• "The Way We Was" (with Sam Simon)
• "Stark Raving Dad"
• "Treehouse of Horror II" (The Bart Zone)
• "Lisa's Pony"
• "Treehouse of Horror III" (Clown Without Pity)
• "'Round Springfield" – (Jean and Reiss received story credit only; the teleplay was written by Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimillia)
• "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"

The Critic episodes

He co-wrote the following episodes with Al Jean:

• "Pilot"
• "Dial 'M' For Mother"
• "Sherman, Woman and Child"
• "I Can't Believe It's A Clip Show!"

References

External links

• [1]
• Reiss feature in The Tattoo Teen Newspaper, including audio about writing for The Simpsons
• Channel4 - 100 Greatest Cartoons

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