Production staff cameos

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Matt Groening in "The Boy Who Knew Too Much".

This is a List of staff members who have appeared in The Simpsons. Various writers, animators and producers have been inserted into shows as background characters. While these are often minor and non-vocal, there are a few instances where these characters have lines, such as in "The Front" and "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show". Matt Groening and James L. Brooks have both voiced themselves in episodes.

Cameos

This list is a work in progress.

Writers

Image	Writer	Voiced by
	Richard Appel	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Donick Cary	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	David S. Cohen	Harry Shearer
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Jonathan Collier	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Ned Goldreyer	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Dan Greaney	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Ron Hauge	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Al Jean
"The Front": He is among the Itchy & Scratchy writers. He also appears in the audience of the awards where he says he'll quit his current job to write a sitcom about a sassy robot.
	Ken Keeler	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Jeff Martin	None
"The Front"
	Ian Maxtone-Graham	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy. The design of the Very tall man is based on him.
	Dan McGrath	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	George Meyer	Harry Shearer
"The Front" (with a different design than in his later appearances) "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of Itchy and Scratchy's writing staff and gets fired. "Realty Bites": He appears behind Kirk Van Houten at the unemployment office. "Special Edna": He is one of the men Bart thinks of that would be good for his teacher to date. "Jazzy and the Pussycats": He is passed by Bart on the street.
	David Mirkin	None
"Marge on the Lam": He is one of the two cowboys that confront Marge and Ruth Powers in the bar.
	Bill Oakley	Hank Azaria
"22 Short Films About Springfield": He and Josh Weinstein are part of the crowd that laughs at Nelson. "The Homer They Fall": A poster in Moe's office says "Szyslak vs. Oakley" and has a picture of Bill Oakley's head. "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He and Josh Weinstein appear as part of the writing staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	Mike Reiss
"The Front": He is among the Itchy & Scratchy writers.
	Mike Scully	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy. "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": He appears with his family running away from a rhino at the zoo. "Simpsons Bible Stories": Mike's children can be seen in a crowd at one point. "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation": He is one of the men in line for the bathroom at the concert.
	Julie Thacker	None
"Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": She appears with Mike Scully and her family running away from a rhino at the zoo.
	Steve Tompkins	None
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is part of the staff for Itchy and Scratchy.
	John Swartzwelder	None
"The Front": He appears among the Itchy & Scratchy writers. "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": A statue of him appears outside the courthouse. "Bart the Fink": He appears at Krusty's fake funeral. "The Day the Violence Died": He is one of Lionel Hutz's surprise witnesses. "Bart After Dark": He is seen sitting in front when Homer first looks in the main stage area. "Hurricane Neddy": He is one of the people the family passes while walking through the mental hospital.
	Jon Vitti
"The Front": He is the writer who is fired by Roger Meyers, Jr..
	Josh Weinstein	Dan Castellaneta
"22 Short Films About Springfield": He and Bill Oakley are part of the crowd that laughs at Nelson. "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He and Bill Oakley appear as part of the writing staff for Itchy and Scratchy.

Directors

Image	Writer	Voiced by
	Neil Affleck
"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": He is one of the Canadians being covered in scorpions.
	Bob Anderson	None
"Hurricane Neddy"
	Wes Archer	None
He often appears as a background character in the early seasons, along with David Silverman and Rich Moore.
	Rich Moore	None
He often appears as a background character in the early seasons, along with Wes Archer and David Silverman.
100px	Jim Reardon	None
Often appears in scenes at train stations, including in "Lisa's Substitute" and "Burns, Baby Burns".
	David Silverman
He often appears as a background character in the early seasons, along with Wes Archer and Rich Moore "Marge vs. the Monorail": He is one of the people that falls off the "Escalator to Nowhere". "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": He is the sketch artist who draws out the first sketch of Poochie. "Blazed and Confused": Appeared at Blazing Guy playing a flaming tuba, which he actually did at Burning Man. He also voiced himself.

Producers

Image	Writer	Voiced by
	Richard Sakai	Dan Castellaneta
"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish": The character "Richie Sakai" is based on him. "Sideshow Bob Roberts": He's one of the prisoners seen escaping during Sideshow Bob's political ad.
	Sam Simon	None
"The Front" An image of "Sam Simon" appears in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular". The design was based on Howard Hughes, not Simon.

Other

Conan O'Brien

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Conan O'Brian

"Bart Gets Famous": Conan guest stars as himself, and Bart appears on his talk show.
"Radioactive Man": When Homer is flipping through channels, he passes Conan's show.

James L. Brooks

"The Front": He can bee seen in the audience during the award show.
$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling): He appears as a hobo when Grampa and Jasper are walking down the street. This hobo caricature also appears in Homer Loves Flanders in the homeless shelter and in You Only Move Twice during the Cypress Creek information video.
In the disc holder artwork for The Complete Tenth Season, James appears in a crashed studio lot cart.
He guest stars as himself in "A Star Is Born Again".

Dan Castellaneta

"I Am Furious (Yellow)": He is voice actor who plays Angry Dad.
"Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife": The studio cart passes him in the Fox Studio.
"He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs": Is in a play.

Matt Groening

"The Front": He can bee seen in the audience during the award show.
"The Boy Who Knew Too Much": He appears as the courtroom artist.
"My Big Fat Geek Wedding": He guest stars as himself at the sci-fi convention.
"22 Short Films About Springfield": He is one of the people laughing at Nelson when his pants are pulled down.
"Treehouse of Horror X": He is one of the celebrities captured by The Collector.
In the couch gag for "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" that has Matt Groening's autograph on the floor and Marge cleans only to have Matt rewrite it.
"Worst Episode Ever": His picture is on the wall of people who are banned from Comic Book Guy's store.
In the couch gag for "Blame It on Lisa" that has the family as puppets, Matt is revealed to be the operator of them.
The couch gag for "Don't Fear the Roofer" Matt yells woo hoo after Homer's hand finishes a puzzle.
In the disc holder artwork for The Complete Tenth Season, Matt appears in a crashed studio lot cart.
He appears as a boss in The Simpsons Game.

Julie Kavner

"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": She appears on a poster for Rhoda in the Museum of TV and Television.

Tress MacNeille

"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": The character Betty is a cariciture of herself. Betty is also played by her.

Character designs based on staff

Image	Character	Based on	Voiced by	Episode(s)
	Mr. Bergstrom	Mike Reiss	Dustin Hoffman	"Lisa's Substitute"
	Benjamin	Rich Moore	Harry Shearer	"Homer Goes to College"
200px	Very tall man	Ian Maxtone-Graham	Harry Shearer	"22 Short Films About Springfield"

Gallery

John Swartzwelder in "Hurricane Neddy".
James L. Brooks as a hobo
John Swartzwelder at the Mason Derrière
Matt Groening in "My Big Fat Geek Wedding".
John Swartzwelder, George Meyer and Al Jean
Several staff members in the audience
Al Jean and Mike Reiss
Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley and George Meyer
A John Swartzwelder statue