Full Name Megan Ann Ganz Name Megan Ganz Role Editor | Occupation Comedy writer, editor Years active 2006–present | |
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Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Comedy Similar Abraham Higginbotham, Steven Levitan, Dan O'Shannon, Bill Wrubel, Christopher Lloyd Profiles | ||
Megan Ganz | Think Talk | Adult Swim
Megan Ann Ganz is an American comedy writer and former associate editor of The Onion. She was a writer on the NBC series Community for three years, and in 2013 left to write for Modern Family.
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- Megan Ganz Think Talk Adult Swim
- Megan Ganz Extended Interview
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- Community
- Modern Family
- Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia
- References
Megan Ganz Extended Interview
Career
In 2006 Ganz graduated with honors from the University of Michigan, where she was editor-in-chief of The Every Three Weekly. After completing her junior year at the university, she interned at Mad Magazine in New York City. Ganz had planned to move back to Michigan after her internship was over, but Mad's editor-in-chief John Ficarra encouraged her to remain in New York and pursue comedy writing. She returned to New York and became assistant editor at The Onion and was later promoted to associate editor.
In 2008 Ganz was featured on an episode of This American Life along with other Onion staff members. An agent from United Talent Agency heard the broadcast and suggested that she move into television writing. In summer 2009 Ganz left her job at The Onion and moved to Los Angeles to become a writer for the Comedy Central sketch show Important Things with Demetri Martin. In 2010, she began writing for the NBC comedy series Community.
In 2013, after the shortened season 4 of Community had wrapped, Ganz joined the writing staff of the ABC series Modern Family.
In 2015, Ganz created and produced an animated action-comedy pilot called Cassius and Clay which was expected to be paired with Archer on FXX, but the show never progressed beyond the pilot stage.
In 2016, Ganz announced on her Instagram that she had been hired as a writer for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Ganz cites Dave Barry, Louis Sachar, Bill Cosby, Mad, Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson as influences.
Personal life
Ganz graduated from Hackett Catholic Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2002.
Ganz began dating British comedian Humphrey Ker in 2013. The couple were engaged in late 2014, and married on May 30, 2015.
Filmography
The following is a partial list of television episodes written by Ganz.