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Bill Oakley
Born:1966
United States
Occupation:Television writer
Nationality:American
Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American television writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. Along with his writing partner Josh Weinstein, Oakley was the executive producer and showrunner during the seventh and eighth seasons. Before serving as the show's executive producers, the pair were hired onto the writing staff during the fourth season. Together, the two wrote episodes such as "Who Shot Mr. Burns?". After leaving The Simpsons, Oakley and Weinstein created Mission Hill, The Mullets, and served as consulting producers on Futurama.

He was born and raised in Union Bridge, Maryland, and attended St. Albans School, where he and Weinstein created cartoons for the school newspaper. He later attended Harvard University, where he was vice-president and editor of the Harvard Lampoon. His Lampoon classmates included Futurama creator David X. Cohen, Newsradio creator Paul Simms, as well as Richard Appel, Greg Daniels, Dan Greaney, Dan McGrath, Steve Young, Steve Tompkins, and his future wife Rachel Pulido, all of whom wrote for The Simpsons under the supervision of Oakley and Weinstein. He remains active in Harvard Lampoon affairs and currently serves on the five-member Board of Graduate Trustees, along with James Murdoch.

Oakley and his wife Rachel Pulido (who also wrote for Mission Hill) have two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, and a son named James, who participated in two The Simpsons DVD commentaries while still an infant.

Oakley and Weinstein have written and produced several television pilots (both comedies and dramas), information about which can be found at the IMDB link below. They have also written several feature films, including The Optimist for New Line Cinema, which is slated to star Seann William Scott.

Oakley is an avid surfer and snowboarder who frequents Southern California's Snow Summit during winter months.

Writing credits

The Simpsons episodes

Oakley has written the following episodes of The Simpsons with Josh Weinstein:

Mission Hill episodes

Oakley co-wrote the following episode with Josh Weinstein:

Recent Television Pilots

Feature Films

External links

Preceded by
David Mirkin		(with Josh Weinstein)
The Simpsons Showrunner
1995 – 1997		Succeeded by
Mike Scully


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The Simpsons writers
Current writers
J. Stewart Burns Dan Castellaneta Daniel Chun Joel H. Cohen Kevin Curran John Frink Dan Greaney Matt Groening Ron Hauge Al Jean Deb Lacusta Tim Long Ian Maxtone-Graham George Meyer David Mirkin Bill Odenkirk Carolyn Omine Don Payne Michael Price Mike Reiss Mike Scully Matt Selman Matt Warburton Jeff Westbrook Marc Wilmore
Former recurring writers
Richard Appel James L. Brooks Donick Cary David X. Cohen Jonathan Collier Jennifer Crittenden Greg Daniels Larry Doyle Brent Forrester Dana Gould Ken Keeler Brian Kelley Jay Kogen Jeff Martin Tom Martin Dan McGrath Frank Mula Bill Oakley Conan O'Brien Rachel Pulido Jace Richdale Brian Scully Sam Simon David M. Stern John Swartzwelder Julie Thacker Steve Tompkins Jon Vitti Josh Weinstein Wallace Wolodarsky
One or two-time writers
Bob Bendetson Michael Carrington Robert Cohen Spike Feresten Ricky Gervais Ned Goldreyer Billy Kimball Andrew Kreisberg Bob Kushell Rob LaZebnik Ken Levine Steve O'Donnell David Richardson David Sacks Nell Scovell Joshua Sternin Jeffrey Ventimilia Patric Verrone Steve Young
William Douglas Oakley (April 1, 1964 - February 16, 2004) was a letterer for numerous comic books from Marvel, DC, and other companies.

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  • Obituary
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1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1963 1964 1965 - 1966 - 1967 1968 1969

Year 1966 (MCMLXVI
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has
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Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for film, television or video games.

Writing for film is potentially one of the most high-profile and best-paying careers available to a writer, and as such, it is perhaps the most sought after.
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Nationality is a relationship between a person and their state of origin, culture, association, affiliation and/or loyalty. Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person, and affords the person the protection of the state.
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1963 1964 1965 - 1966 - 1967 1968 1969

Year 1966 (MCMLXVI
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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The Simpsons is an animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a soft-satirical parody of the "Middle American" lifestyle epitomized by its title family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
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Josh Weinstein

Josh Weinstein, caricatured on The Simpsons' episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show".
Born: May 5 1966 (1966--) (age 41)
Maryland, U.S.
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Executive producer is a major role in the entertainment industry but one that is ambiguous and often difficult to define clearly. Executive producers vary in involvement, responsibility and power.
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Show runner (alternatively showrunner,[1] or show-runner)[2] is a term used in the United States television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television series, in other words, the person who
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"Who Shot Mr. Burns?" is the only two part episode in the history of The Simpsons.
  • "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)", the first part, aired as the season finale of the sixth season.
  • "Who Shot Mr.

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Mission Hill (formerly known as The Downtowners, although MTV's production of the similarly titled Downtown forced a name change) was an American animated television series that first aired on The WB in 1999.
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The Mullets was a sitcom that was created by The Simpsons producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. It first aired on UPN in 2003, and was cancelled in 2004 due to poor reception. It starred Michael Weaver, David Hornsby, Loni Anderson, and John O'Hurley.
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A consultant (from the Latin consultare means "to discuss" from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides advice in a particular area of expertise such as accountancy, the environment, technology, law, human
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Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, who also created The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network.
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Union Bridge, Maryland

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Coordinates:
Country United States
State Maryland
County Carroll
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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League.
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Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor organization and publication founded in 1876 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Published five-times yearly, The Harvard Lampoon was originally modelled on the former British satirical periodical
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Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, who also created The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network.
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David Samuel Cohen
Pseudonym: David X. Cohen
Born: July 13, 1966
Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation: Television writer
Nationality: American
Genres: Humor

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NewsRadio is an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 on NBC. The show was created by executive producer Paul Simms.

Overview

The series is set at WNYX, a fictional news radio station in New York City populated by an eccentric station owner and
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Paul Simms is an American television writer.

He began his career in television writing for Late Night with David Letterman. Simms later wrote for the HBO program, The Larry Sanders Show.
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Richard James Appel (b. May 21, 1963 in New York) is a writer and producer of TV-shows. A graduate of Harvard University and writer for the Harvard Lampoon, he left his job as a federal prosecutor to write full-time for "The Simpsons".
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Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. He began his career as a writer on HBO's satirical news show Not Necessarily the News before moving to Saturday Night Live.
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Dan Greaney is an American television writer. He has written for The Michael Richards Show, and, most famously, The Simpsons. He was hired during the show's seventh season, but left after season eleven to try to make it big writing pilots.
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Dan McGrath is an American television writer. He has written for Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Mission Hill (where he made a cameo appearance as a character in a parody of Ingmar Bergman films) and King of the Hill.
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