42 Facts About Mike Judge

Michael Craig Judge was born on October 17,1962 and is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and director.

Mike Judge is best known for being the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head.

Mike Judge co-created the television series King of the Hill, The Goode Family, Silicon Valley, and Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus.

Mike Judge wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Office Space, Idiocracy, and Extract, and co-wrote the screenplay to Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe.

Mike Judge was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mike Judge graduated from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied physics.

Mike Judge has won a Primetime Emmy Award and two Annie Awards for King of the Hill and two Critics' Choice Television Awards and Satellite Awards for Silicon Valley.

Michael Craig Mike Judge was born on October 17,1962, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Mike Judge is the middle of three children born to Margaret Yvonne, a librarian, and William James Judge, an archaeologist.

Mike Judge was raised from age three in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he spent a small portion of his life working on a chicken farm.

Mike Judge attended St Pius X High School and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1985.

Mike Judge was a part of Anson Funderburgh's band for two years, playing on their 1990 Black Top Records release Rack 'Em Up, while taking graduate math classes at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Mike Judge was planning to earn a master's degree as "a back-up plan" to become a community college math teacher after relocating to the north Dallas area for his then-wife's new job.

In 1989, after seeing animation cels on display in a movie theater, Mike Judge purchased a Bolex 16 mm film camera and began creating his own animated shorts in his home in Richardson, Texas.

The short led to the creation of the Beavis and Butt-Head series on MTV, in which Mike Judge voiced both title characters as well as the majority of supporting characters and wrote and directed the majority of the episodes.

On January 10,2014, Mike Judge said that there is still a possibility that Beavis and Butt-Head could be pitched to another network, adding that he wouldn't mind making more episodes.

In early 1995, after the successful first run of Beavis and Butt-Head, Mike Judge decided to create another animated series, King of the Hill.

Mike Judge conceived the idea for the show, drew the main characters, and wrote a pilot script.

Mike Judge was a former resident of Garland, Texas, upon which the fictional community of Arlen was loosely based, but as Mike Judge stated in a later interview, the show was based more specifically on the Dallas suburb of Richardson.

Mike Judge began to develop one of his four animated short films titled Milton, about an office drone named Milton that Mike Judge created, which first aired on Liquid Television and Night After Night with Allan Havey and later aired on Saturday Night Live.

Mike Judge sold the completed film Office Space to 20th Century Fox based on his script and a cast that included Jennifer Aniston, Ron Livingston, and David Herman.

Mike Judge made the relatively painless transition from animation to live-action with the help of the film's director of photography who taught him about lenses and where to put the camera.

Mike Judge hated the ending and felt that a complete rewrite of the third act was necessary.

In 2005, Mike Judge was presented with the Austin Film Festival's Outstanding Television Writer Award by Johnny Hardwick.

Mike Judge has made supporting and cameo appearances in numerous films.

Mike Judge had a voice cameo as Kenny in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, the feature-length film adaptation of the popular Comedy Central series; he voiced Kenny McCormick when he was unhooded towards the end of the film.

Mike Judge later acted in the science-fiction family comedy franchise Spy Kids, where he played Donnagon Giggles in the first three films.

Mike Judge later appeared in the comedy Jackass Number Two, in which he can be seen during the closing credits.

Mike Judge created a video clip of Beavis and Butt-Head ripping into Steve-O for his video Poke the Puss, where the two try imagining if they would like the video better if they were black.

Shortly after completing Office Space, Mike Judge was already about 40 pages into his follow-up script, set in the world of an extract factory, when he was convinced by his representative team that he needed to shelve that and concentrate on something more commercial.

Mike Judge relied heavily on his own personal knowledge of the industrial world to bring the story to life.

Mike Judge makes an uncredited appearance as Jim, a union organizer.

In 2012, Mike Judge directed the music video for country music group Zac Brown Band's "The Wind".

In 2013, Mike Judge collaborated with Seth MacFarlane on a mashup episode of Family Guy, in which, complete with a Hill-themed opening, Mike Judge reprises his role as Hank Hill.

Mike Judge created his fourth show, Silicon Valley, with King of the Hill executive producers John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky.

Mike Judge wrote the story for Action Point, the film was released in 2018.

In 2019, Mike Judge announced he had been developing two projects for HBO: QualityLand and A5, both of which were later scrapped by HBO in 2021.

Mike Judge eventually talked the company into doing an animated movie instead to reestablish the characters first, with a future live-action movie still a possibility.

Mike Judge's new show, Common Side Effects currently airs on Adult Swim and is streaming on Max.

Mike Judge married Francesca Morocco in 1989; they divorced in 2009.

Still, Mike Judge denies having political messages in his shows, saying in 2006 in an IGN interview about King of the Hill:.

In June 2016, before the presidential election in November, Etan Cohen told BuzzFeed that he and Mike Judge would produce Idiocracy-themed campaign advertisements mocking Donald Trump's presidential campaign if given permission from 20th Century Fox to do so.