1. George Meyer was born on 1956 and is an American producer and writer.
25 Facts About George Meyer
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George Meyer left after two seasons and went on to write for The New Show, Not Necessarily the News and Saturday Night Live.
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Tired of life in New York, George Meyer moved to Boulder, Colorado where he wrote a screenplay for a film for Letterman to star in.
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The project fell through and George Meyer then founded the humor zine Army Man which garnered a strong following, although George Meyer ended it after three issues.
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The producer Sam Simon was a fan and he hired George Meyer to write for the animated sitcom The Simpsons in 1989.
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George Meyer has held a number of positions on the show and cowrote The Simpsons Movie.
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George Meyer is in a relationship with the writer Maria Semple and the two have a daughter.
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George Meyer is the eldest of eight children in a Roman Catholic family of German ancestry.
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George Meyer has made jokes about his somewhat unhappy childhood, stating that one common argument in his household was "which family member ruined a holiday", while his sister noted George Meyer was frequently blamed for the family's problems.
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George Meyer is an Eagle Scout and an altar boy and wrote for the student newspaper.
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George Meyer grew up hoping to one day become either a priest or ballplayer.
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George Meyer attended Harvard University, where he served as president of the Harvard Lampoon.
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George Meyer graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry and was accepted into medical school, but decided not to enroll.
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George Meyer commented on his Roman Catholic upbringing in a 2000 New Yorker profile:.
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George Meyer left to write for The New Show in late 1983, a short-lived variety series from Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.
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George Meyer shared an office with writer Jack Handey, whom he credited with giving him comedy advice.
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George Meyer had been disappointed by the decline of National Lampoon and felt that there was no longer a magazine which has the sole purpose of being funny.
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George Meyer sent Meyer a compilation reel of Simpsons shorts from Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show that preceded the development of the series.
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George Meyer turned down the job initially, but was offered a second chance to work as a creative consultant in the fall of 1989, which he accepted.
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George Meyer soon returned as an executive producer and full-time member of the writing room the following season.
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George Meyer ultimately left the show in 2005, and received his final credits in episodes held over for season 17.
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In 2005, George Meyer cowrote the TBS special Earth to America.
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George Meyer is in a relationship with the writer Maria Semple.
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George Meyer is gambler, collector of space program memorabilia and practices yoga.
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George Meyer has a strong interest in the environment and notes that "the only organization that I really care about these days" is Conservation International.