Name Jon Vitti Role Television series writer | Spouse Ann Vitti Education Harvard University | |
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Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program Shows The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show Movies The Simpsons Movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin and the Chipmun, The Angry Birds Movie Similar People John Swartzwelder, George Meyer, Mike Reiss, Ian Maxtone‑Graham, Al Jean | ||
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Jon Vitti (born 1960) is an American writer best known for his work on the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a screenwriter or consultant for several animated and live-action movies, including Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). He is one of the eleven writers of The Simpsons Movie and also wrote the screenplays for the film adaptions Alvin and the Chipmunks, its sequel and The Angry Birds Movie.
Contents
- Jon vitti to pen angry birds script amc movie news
- Career
- Personal life
- The Simpsons episodes
- The Larry Sanders Show episodes
- The Critic episodes
- King of the Hill episodes
- The Office episodes
- References
Career
Vitti is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for, and was president with Mike Reiss of, the Harvard Lampoon. He was also very close with Conan O'Brien while at Harvard. Prior to joining The Simpsons, he had a brief stint at Saturday Night Live, describing his experience on a DVD commentary as "a very unhappy year." After leaving the Simpsons writing staff in its fourth season, Vitti wrote for the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show. Beginning in its seventh season, he was also a writer for The Office.
He is the third most prolific writer for The Simpsons; his 25 episodes place him after John Swartzwelder, who wrote 59 episodes, and Tim Long, who wrote 26.
Vitti has also used the pseudonym Penny Wise. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "Another Simpsons Clip Show" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on Simpsons DVD commentaries (though his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show").
On the season four Simpsons episode "The Front," Jon Vitti is caricatured as a Harvard graduate who gets fired from I&S Studios for penning mediocre episodes and gets hit on the head with a name plate by his boss, Roger Meyers.
Personal life
His wife, Ann, is the sister of fellow Simpsons writer George Meyer (who was also a Saturday Night Live writer-turned-Simpsons writer who did not like working on SNL). He is a distant cousin of Los Angeles Lakers trainer Gary Vitti, award-winning author Jim Vitti, and actor Michael Dante (the stage name of Ralph Vitti).
The Simpsons episodes
He is credited with writing the following episodes:
The Larry Sanders Show episodes
Vitti was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for "Hank's Sex Tape" and "Everybody Loves Larry". He was also credited as co-executive producer for 30 of the 89 episodes.