Profile: Mike Reiss

Author(s)

University of Dayton

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

3-1-2020

Abstract

Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his 28 years writing for The Simpsons. He ran the show in season four, which Entertainment Weekly called "the greatest season of the greatest show in history." In 2006, Mike received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild of America West. He has written 19 children's books as well as the best-selling memoir Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

eCommons Citation

University of Dayton, "Profile: Mike Reiss" (2020). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 947.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/947