Michael L Reiss is an American television comedy writer.
18 Facts About Mike Reiss
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Mike Reiss served as a show-runner, writer and producer for the animated series The Simpsons and co-created the animated series The Critic.
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Mike Reiss created and wrote the webtoon Queer Duck and has worked on screenplays including: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Simpsons Movie and My Life in Ruins.
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Mike Reiss's mother was a local journalist and his father was a doctor.
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Mike Reiss attended Memorial Boulevard Public School, Thomas Patterson School and Bristol Eastern High School and has stated that he felt like an "outsider" in these places.
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Mike Reiss focused his attention on comedy, performing in talent shows and writing.
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In Holworthy Hall at Harvard, Mike Reiss met fellow freshman Al Jean; they befriended one another and collaborated in their writing efforts for the humor publication Harvard Lampoon.
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Mike Reiss became co-president of the Harvard Lampoon, alongside Jon Vitti.
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In 1989, Mike Reiss was hired along with Jean as the first members of the original writing staff of the Fox network animated series The Simpsons.
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Mike Reiss worked on the thirteen episodes of the show's first season.
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The first episode Jean and Mike Reiss produced was "Mr Lisa Goes to Washington", and they felt a lot of pressure on them to make it good.
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When Jean returned to The Simpsons permanently as showrunner from season thirteen, Mike Reiss returned part-time as a consultant and producer, flying to Los Angeles one day a week to attend story meetings and contribute to the writing process.
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Mike Reiss co-wrote the screenplay for The Simpsons Movie in 2007.
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Mike Reiss collaborated with Feinberg again to independently produce a short internet cartoon series entitled Queer Duck for Icebox.
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Mike Reiss wrote several jokes for the film Ice Age after The Simpsons colleague David Silverman asked him and Jon Vitti to help out with the film's story issues.
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Mike Reiss initially wrote the film, which was based on his experience on holiday bus tours of Mexico and Greece, as a short story.
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Mike Reiss has published seventeen children's books, including How Murray Saved Christmas, published by Penguin.
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Mike Reiss won an Edgar Award for his mystery story Cro-Magnon PI.