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Alfred Ernest "Al" Jean (born January 9, 1961) is an American producer and writer. He is the current showrunner and executive producer of The Simpsons.
Biography
He was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, where he graduated from Harrison High School. His family owns a hardware store across the street from the high school, called Jean's Hardware. He attended Harvard University, majoring in mathematics. He went on to write for the National Lampoon, The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, ALF and It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Career
In 1989 he and writing partner Mike Reiss were hired to write for The Simpsons. Jean wrote numerous episodes including "Moaning Lisa" and "The Way We Was". Jean and Reiss served as showrunners for season 3 and season 4. In 1994 they left to create the animated series The Critic. The show caused controversy after its lead character Jay Sherman appeared in the episode "A Star is Burns". It was canceled after 23 produced episodes but was released on DVD and has a cult following. The two next worked for Disney and created the show Teen Angel. They occasionally returned to produce episodes of The Simpsons, such as "Simpson Tide".
He returned to the show as a writer in season 10 before becoming executive producer and showrunner again from season 13. He has remained in this position ever since. He co-wrote and produced The Simpsons Movie in 2007.
Jean is also the creator of the web series Jesus and His brothers on Icebox.com.
He is married to Stephanie Gillis.[1] The two were wed in Enniskerry, Ireland in 2002.[2]
Credits
Co-producer
Written by
Supervising producer
Co-executive producer
Executive producer
 Episode – "Kamp Krusty" - Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
- Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror III" (as Awful Al Jean)
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
- Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
- Episode – "New Kid on the Block"
- Episode – "Mr. Plow"
- Episode – "Lisa's First Word"
- Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
- Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- Episode – "Selma's Choice"
- Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet"
- Episode – "I Love Lisa"
- Episode – "Duffless"
- Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield"
- Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
- Episode – "The Front"
- Episode – "Whacking Day"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
- Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
- Episode – "Cape Feare"
- Episode – "A Star Is Burns"
- Episode – "'Round Springfield"
- Episode – "The Springfield Files"
- Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "Pygmoelian"
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
- Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants"
- Episode – "Blame It on Lisa"
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
- Episode – "The Bart of War"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "Midnight Rx"
- Episode – "Mobile Homer"
- Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday"
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer"
- Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
- Episode – "Jazzy & The Pussycats"
- Episode – "Please Homer Don't Hammer 'em"
 THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" - Episode – "GI (Annoyed Grunt)"
- Episode – "Moe'N'A Lisa"
- Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)"
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "The Wife Aquatic"
- Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
- Episode – "Little Big Girl"
- Episode – "Springfield Up"
- Episode – "Rome-old and Juli-eh"
- Episode – "Marge Gamer"
- Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoo"
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
- Episode – "Homer of Seville"
- Episode – "Midnight Towboy"
- Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII"
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
- Episode – "Husbands and Knives"
- Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
- Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum"
- Episode – "That 90's Show"
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
- Episode – "The Debarted"
- Episode – "Dial 'N' for Nerder"
- Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter"
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
- Episode – "Apocalypse Cow"
- Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
- Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Washington Mutual Jean)
- Episode – "Dangerous Curves"
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "Mypods and Boomsticks"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen"
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
- Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
- Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
- Episode – "Wedding for Disaster"
- Episode – "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"
- Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
- Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
- Episode – "Coming to Homerica"
- Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a 'Z'"
- Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as Al '20 More Years' Jean)
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
- Episode – "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (as Al Jazeena)
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Consulting producer
References
- ↑ "They're the Simpsons, man, but who the hell is Al Jean?", Canberra Times. Retrieved on 2010-01-05.
- ↑ "Simpsons' producer Al Jean got married", Daily Mail.
External links
Al Jean at the Internet Movie Database
Al Jean at Wikipedia
