Josh Weinstein was born on May 5,1966 and is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons.
32 Facts About Josh Weinstein
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Weinstein and Bill Oakley became best friends and writing partners at St Albans School; Weinstein then attended Stanford University and was editor-in-chief of the Stanford Chaparral.
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Josh Weinstein worked on several short-term media projects, including writing for the variety show Sunday Best, but was then unemployed for a long period.
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Oakley left the project over a contract dispute, but Josh Weinstein remained until it was canceled.
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Josh Weinstein co-produced and wrote for Futurama again during its Comedy Central revival, winning an Emmy in 2011.
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Since 2013, Josh Weinstein has served as showrunner for the CBBC series Strange Hill High, and in 2015, Danger Mouse.
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Josh Weinstein has served as a writer for season two of Gravity Falls, co-writing nine of the season's episodes.
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In 2018, Josh Weinstein co-developed the Netflix animated series Disenchantment with creator Matt Groening, of which he and Oakley are currently serving as co-showrunners.
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Josh Weinstein was born and raised in Washington, DC to Rosa and Harris Josh Weinstein.
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Josh Weinstein has a brother, Jacob, and a sister, Teme.
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Josh Weinstein attended St Albans School in Washington, DC, where he met and became best friends with Bill Oakley in the eighth grade.
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Josh Weinstein later attended Stanford University, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Chaparral.
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Josh Weinstein is an honorary member of the Harvard Lampoon as he worked on some of Lampoon's parody publications with Oakley over the summers between course years.
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Josh Weinstein did not land a job on a major comedy series, despite writing numerous spec scripts for shows such as Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman; he moved back home to Washington, DC There, he worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency, writing print adverts for such clients as IKEA.
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The first draft of the script was based on research about women in prison conducted by Oakley and Josh Weinstein, making it "slightly more realistic" than the final version of the episode, in which many realistic elements were replaced.
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Oakley and Josh Weinstein were initially unsure about having Maggie as the culprit, and it was decided that the episode would end with Maggie shifting her eyes and making it look like it was not a complete accident.
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Oakley and Josh Weinstein were appointed executive producers and showrunners of the seventh and eighth seasons.
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Oakley and Josh Weinstein often set two script-rewriting rooms in motion at the same time, delegating leadership in the rooms to writers such as Steve Tompkins and David Cohen.
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Oakley and Josh Weinstein stood down as showrunners after season eight because they "didn't want to break [the show]".
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Josh Weinstein calls the episode "[one of] the weakest episodes in Simpsons history".
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Josh Weinstein won three Emmys for his work on The Simpsons, and shared them with the other producers.
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When Josh Weinstein was the showrunner and executive producer, "Homer's Phobia" won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 1997.
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Josh Weinstein shared the awards for "Lisa's Wedding" and "Trash of the Titans" in 1995 and 1998 respectively.
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Many of the episodes by Oakley and Josh Weinstein are considered amongst the show's best.
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Oakley and Josh Weinstein had been informed that the upfronts did not matter.
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Oakley and Josh Weinstein have written and produced several television pilots.
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Josh Weinstein was due to serve with Oakley as an executive producer on the Fox animated television series Sit Down, Shut Up in 2009, which was created by Mitchell Hurwitz.
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Josh Weinstein continued working on the show, before it was canceled after 13 episodes.
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Josh Weinstein returned to Futurama, following its revival on Comedy Central in 2010, and served as a writer and co-executive producer on its sixth and seventh seasons.
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In 2013, Josh Weinstein co-created, produced and wrote the animated comedy-mystery series Strange Hill High for British children's channel CBBC.
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Josh Weinstein was a long time fan of the Youtube channel and when Malin was on a tour of the US they arranged the meet up.
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Josh Weinstein married Lisa Simmons, a West Coast editor of Cosmopolitan, in a Jewish ceremony in 1995.