Mike Judge

Michael Craig Judge born October 17 1962 is an American actor animator writer producer and director He is best known for creating the animated television series Beavis and ButtHead 19931997 2011 2022present He also cocreated the television series King of the Hill 19972010 2025present The Goode Family 2009 Silicon Valley 20142019 Common Side Effects 2025 and Mike Judge Presents Tales from the Tour Bus 20172018 He wrote and directed the films Beavis and ButtHead Do America 1996 Office Space 1999 Idiocracy 2006 and Extract 2009 and cowrote the screenplay to Beavis and ButtHead Do the Universe 2022 Judge was born in Guayaquil Ecuador and raised in Albuquerque New Mexico He graduated from the University of California San Diego where he studied physics After losing interest in a career in science Judge focused on animation and short films His animated short Frog Baseball was developed into the successful MTV series Beavis and ButtHead and the spinoff series Daria with which Judge had no involvement In 1995 Judge and former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels developed King of the Hill which debuted on Fox in 1997 and quickly became popular with critics and audiences It ran for 13 seasons and became one of the longestrunning American animated series During the show run Judge took time off to write and direct Office Space Idiocracy and Extract As King of the Hill ended Judge created his third show ABCs The Goode Family which received mixed reviews and was cancelled after 13 episodes After a fouryear hiatus he created his fourth show the liveaction Silicon Valley for HBO which has received critical acclaim In 2017 Judges fourth animated series the musicthemed Tales from the Tour Bus premiered on Cinemax to acclaim Judge has won a Primetime Emmy Award two Annie Awards for King of the Hill two Critics Choice Television Awards and two Satellite Awards for Silicon Valley Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Judge licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia