Mike Scully

Michael C Scully born October 2 1956 is an American television writer and producer He is known for his work as executive producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001 Scully grew up in West Springfield Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing He was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college going on to work in a series of jobs Eventually in 1986 he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a standup comic and wrote for Yakov Smirnoff Scully went on to write for several television sitcoms before 1993 when he was hired to write for The Simpsons There he wrote twelve episodes including Lisa on Ice and Team Homer and served as showrunner from seasons 9 to 12 Scully won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the series with many publications praising his episodes but others criticizing his tenure as a period of decline in the shows quality Scully still works on the show and also cowrote and coproduced 2007s The Simpsons Movie More recently Scully cocreated The Pitts The Boy Who Lost His Schoolbag and Complete Savages as well as working on Everybody Loves Raymond and Parks and Recreation He codeveloped the shortlived animated television version of Napoleon Dynamite as well as cocreating Duncanville with his wife Julie Thacker and comedian Amy Poehler