Gregory Martin Daniels was born on June 13,1963 and is an American screenwriter, television producer, and director.
27 Facts About Greg Daniels
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Greg Daniels has worked on several television series, including writing for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, adapting The Office for the United States, and co-creating Parks and Recreation and King of the Hill.
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Greg Daniels's first writing credit was for Not Necessarily the News, before he was laid off because of budget cuts.
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Greg Daniels joined the writing staff of The Simpsons during its fifth season.
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Greg Daniels left The Simpsons to co-create another long-running animated series, King of the Hill, with Mike Judge.
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Greg Daniels created the Amazon science fiction comedy series Upload.
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Greg Daniels is the son of Judy, who worked at the New York Public Library, and Aaron Greg Daniels, who was president of ABC Radio Network.
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Greg Daniels's first joke was a Carnac the Magnificent joke for his father which was later used for The Office episode, "The Dundies".
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Greg Daniels attended Phillips Exeter Academy and then Harvard University where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon with Conan O'Brien.
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Greg Daniels joined the writing staff of the Fox show The Simpsons in 1993.
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Greg Daniels was hired in the fifth season following the departures of many of the original team of writers.
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Greg Daniels left The Simpsons to work on King of the Hill alongside Mike Judge.
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Greg Daniels took the writers to Texas to do some research with reporter notebooks, a process he would use for The Office and Parks and Recreation.
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In 2005, Greg Daniels adapted the popular BBC mockumentary series The Office for American audiences.
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In 2011, Greg Daniels made a deal with NBC to produce several series for Universal Television.
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Greg Daniels developed the British series Friday Night Dinner for American audiences.
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The remake was picked up for a pilot, which was written by Greg Daniels and directed by Ken Kwapis, and featured Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub as the mother and father.
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Greg Daniels teamed with Mindy Kaling and Alan Yang to work on two different animated series for NBC and made a deal to executive produce a new pilot written by The Office writer Owen Ellickson and starring The Office cast member Craig Robinson.
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Greg Daniels served as director and executive producer on the TBS series People of Earth.
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Greg Daniels created the Amazon original sci-fi series Upload which started streaming in May 2020.
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Greg Daniels met Susanne Dari Lieberstein while she was Lorne Michaels' assistant at Saturday Night Live and they eventually married.
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Greg Daniels is the sister of Paul Lieberstein, writer for King of the Hill and the replacement showrunner of The Office for Daniels.
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Greg Daniels was the brother-in-law to The Office cast member Angela Kinsey until her divorce from The Office writer Warren Lieberstein in 2010.
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Greg Daniels expertly walked that tightrope, and threw in some treats for longtime fans as well.
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Greg Daniels's writing credits for the series are often considered the best of the series.
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Greg Daniels has been nominated for twenty-one Emmys and has won five.
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Greg Daniels was awarded Austin Film Festival's Outstanding Television Writer Award in 2008.