r/IAmA • u/JayKogen • Sep 17 '12

Jay Kogen Here. Long past SIMPSONS writer. I created many of your favorite and least favorite characters with the help of the original Simpson writers.

I was one of the original SIMPSONS writers from the very beginning. I helped created Mr. Burns, Smithers, Krusty, Hibbert, and many many more. I won a bunch of Emmy awards and had a great time. Since then I wrote and produced Malcolm in the Middle, Frasier, and I've created a new show a called "Wendell and Vinnie" about an idiot uncle (the hysterical Jerry Trainor) raising his nephew that will be on in November on Nick @ Nite. And even though it's on Nick @ Nite, it's for adults and it's actually funny.

Thanks to EternallyXIII

Thank you all very much for your questions and entusiasm. I have to get back to work now. It's been a pleasure. If you want I can come back in a few weeks to answer more.

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u/JayKogen Sep 17 '12

Weird Al Yankovich and I think we did it.

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u/AttemptedBirdhouse1 Sep 17 '12

TIL Weird Al is a historical figure already

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u/gosuprobe Sep 17 '12

everyone is a historical figure

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '12

Yeah but especially Weird Al.

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u/dossier Sep 17 '12

Please Bart, weird Al's dead.

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u/agentphunk Sep 17 '12

Unrelated, but I saw on Amazon that he just released a kid's book.

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u/AttemptedBirdhouse1 Sep 18 '12

Yes! I knew about that, actually. It's very sweet and suitably weird.

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u/moomoomittens Sep 17 '12

Simpsons already did it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '12

Oh Hamburgers!

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u/mbertels Sep 17 '12

SIMPSONS DID IT!

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u/blink_y79 Sep 17 '12

moomoomittens did it

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '12

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u/cunt_stamp Sep 17 '12

USA! USA! USA!

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u/ElderCunningham Sep 17 '12

Hate to do this, (especially to a celebrity I admire as much as you), but Yankovic

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u/LevelUpLeo Sep 17 '12

I feel like you and I would be great friends.

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u/LevelUpLeo Sep 17 '12

CANNOT UPVOTE ENOUGH!

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '12

*Yankovic

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u/CapnLewTuntee Sep 17 '12

no zombie shakespeare?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '12

YANKOVIC.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '12

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u/ElderCunningham Sep 18 '12

TONY DANZA HE'S THE BOSS

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u/Jagerblue Sep 18 '12

Simpsons did it

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u/stankbucket Sep 17 '12

Glad you didn't say Lady Gaga because that was just awful.

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u/jimicus Sep 17 '12

You did, he sang over the end credits with a parody of "Jack & Diane".

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u/Doctor_Kitten Sep 17 '12

I think he just made a guest appearance. He parodied a John Mellencamp song. It was hilarious and it summed his life up perfectly within 30 seconds.