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Encyclopedia > Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels is a well known television comedy writer. He began his career as a writer on HBO's satirical news show Not Necessarily the News before moving to Saturday Night Live. He spent three seasons at SNL, winning an Emmy Award in the process. Greg then joined The Simpsons, writing and producing some of the most popular episodes in the history of the series (including "22 Short Films About Springfield", "Homer and Apu", "Bart Sells His Soul", and "Lisa's Wedding"). In 1992, Greg wrote an episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Parking Space" which aired during the third season. He won his second Emmy Award while with The Simpsons before co-creating King of the Hill with Mike Judge. King of the Hill has had the longest run of any animated series besides The Simpsons. Greg won another Emmy for his work on King of the Hill. More recently, Greg adapted the popular BBC series The Office for NBC in the U.S. to great success. HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... Not Necessarily the News was a satirical sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1990. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. ... SeinFeld is an American television situation comedy set in New York City that ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. ... This article is about the King of the Hill TV series. ... Mike Judge as Stan in the motion picture Office Space (1999) Mike Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an animator, voice actor, writer, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the hit animated television series Beavis and Butt-head (1993-1997) and King of the Hill (1997... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television) and the world. ... The Office is a British television comedy series, created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and first aired in the UK on BBC Two on July 9, 2001. ... NBC, the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...


Career abstract

  • The Office - NBC - 2004-present: Co-creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director
  • Life's Too Short - 2000: Executive Producer, Writer
  • Monsignor Martinez - Executive Producer, Writer
  • King of the Hill - FOX - 1997-2006: Co-creator, Executive Producer, Writer. Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Series (1999). 4 other nominations for Outstanding Animated Series (1997, 1998, 2001, 2002).
  • Seinfeld - NBC - 1992: Writer
  • The Simpsons - FOX: Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Producer, Co-Producer. Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Series (1995). 2 other Emmy Nominations (Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics-1994, Outstanding Animated Series-1996).
  • Saturday Night Live - NBC - 1987-1990: Writer. Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series (1989).
  • Not Necessarily the News - HBO: Writer.

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