29 Facts About Mike Scully

Michael C Scully was born on October 2,1956 and is an American television writer and producer.

Mike Scully is known for his work as executive producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001.

Mike Scully was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college, going on to work in a series of jobs.

Mike Scully went on to write for several television sitcoms before 1993, when he was hired to write for The Simpsons.

Mike Scully won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the series, with many publications praising his episodes, but others criticizing his tenure as a period of decline in the show's quality.

Mike Scully co-developed the short-lived animated television version of Napoleon Dynamite, as well as co-creating Duncanville with his wife, Julie Thacker, and comedian Amy Poehler.

Mike Scully was born October 2,1956 at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts and grew up in the Merrick section of West Springfield.

Mike Scully graduated from West Springfield High School in 1974, having been voted "Most Likely Not to Live Up to Potential" by his classmates, and dropped out of Holyoke Community College after one day, undecided about what he wanted to do with his life.

Mike Scully took up work in the clothing department at Steiger's department store, as a janitor at the Baystate Medical Center and as a driving instructor.

Mike Scully got a job writing jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff and developed his joke writing skills by performing himself at amateur stand-up comedy nights.

Mike Scully purchased scripts from a variety of half-hour comedy shows, including Taxi, to train himself to write them and had numerous speculative scripts rejected.

In 1993, David Mirkin hired Mike Scully to write for The Simpsons, as a replacement for the departing Conan O'Brien, after reading some of his sample scripts.

Mike Scully became showrunner of The Simpsons in 1997, during its ninth season.

Mike Scully was popular with the staff members, many of whom praised his organization and management skills.

Mike Scully served as showrunner until 2001, during season 12, making him the first person to run the show for more than two seasons.

Mike Scully returned in season 14 to write and executive produce the episode "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", and co-wrote and co-produced The Simpsons Movie in 2007.

Mike Scully won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons, while Entertainment Weekly cited "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" as the show's 22nd best episode.

Mike Scully was a writer and co-executive producer on Everybody Loves Raymond for part of season seven and all of season eight, winning an Emmy for his work.

Mike Scully co-created The Pitts for Fox and Complete Savages for ABC, which was produced by Mel Gibson.

Complete Savages, which Thacker and Mike Scully wrote with the "Simpsons sensibility" of layered jokes, was canceled in January 2005 due to low ratings and network anger at Mike Scully and Thacker's decision to write to TV critics in what the Hartford Courant labelled "unsanctioned promoting".

Mike Scully created a pilot for Fox called Schimmel in 2000, starring Robert Schimmel, which was dropped after Schimmel was diagnosed with cancer.

Mike Scully served as a consulting producer on the NBC series Parks and Recreation, and wrote the episodes "Ron and Tammy" in 2009, and "The Possum" in 2010.

Mike Scully had cameo roles in the episodes "Eagleton" and "Soda Tax" as a speaker at the Pawnee community meeting.

In 2012, Mike Scully co-produced and co-wrote an animated TV version of the film Napoleon Dynamite, which was canceled after six episodes.

Mike Scully served as co-executive producer on the single-season NBC sitcom The New Normal, alongside Allison Adler and Ryan Murphy.

Mike Scully is married to writer Julie Thacker; the couple have five daughters.

Mike Scully's elder brother Brian Scully is a comedy writer; his younger brother, Neil, is an ice hockey writer.

Mike Scully was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Westfield State University in 2008.

Mike Scully received a lifetime achievement award by the WGA West in 2010.