- This article is about the crew member. For the character, see Al Jean (character).
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. He was also interviewed in The Simpsons: Celebrity Friends, The Simpsons: Mischief & Mayhem, The Simpsons: Access All Areas, The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!, and The Simpsons: America's First Family.
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 and the Pussycats"
- Episode – "Please Homer Don't Hammer 'em"
 THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" - Episode – "G.I. (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 Shoot"
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
- Episode – "The 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
Showrunner
- Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
- Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"
- Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
- Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
- Episode – "Homer Defined"
- Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II"
- Episode – "Lisa's Pony"
- Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
- Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
- Episode – "I Married Marge"
- Episode – "Radio Bart"
- Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
- Episode – "Homer Alone"
- Episode – "Bart the Lover"
- Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
- Episode – "Separate Vocations"
- Episode – "Dog of Death"
- Episode – "Colonel Homer"
- Episode – "Black Widower"
- Episode – "The Otto Show"
- Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
- Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
- Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
- Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
- Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III"
- 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"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
- Episode – "The Parent Rap"
- Episode – "Homer the Moe"
- Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"
- Episode – "The Blunder Years"
- Episode – "She of Little Faith"
- Episode – "Brawl in the Family"
- Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge"
- Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut"
- Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal"
- Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants"
- Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the Key"
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain"
- Episode – "Blame It on Lisa"
- Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's"
- Episode – "Gump Roast"
- Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)"
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu"
- Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XIII"
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Helter Shelter"
- Episode – "The Great Louse Detective"
- Episode – "Special Edna"
- Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little"
- Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma"
- Episode – "Pray Anything"
- Episode – "Barting Over"
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
- Episode – "A Star Is Born-Again"
- Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"
- Episode – "C.E. D'oh"
- Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
- Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo"
- Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
- Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly"
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please"
- Episode – "The Bart of War"
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
- Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker"
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
- Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest"
- Episode – "Today, I Am a Clown"
- Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
- Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"
- Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
- Episode – "Margical History Tour"
- Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
- Episode – "Smart and Smarter"
- Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"
- Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day"
- Episode – "The Wandering Juvie"
- Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
- Episode – "Catch 'Em If You Can"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "The Way We Weren't"
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner"
- Episode – "Fraudcast News"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV"
- Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War"
- Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy"
- Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl"
- Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy"
- Episode – "Midnight Rx"
- Episode – "Mommie Beerest"
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
- Episode – "Pranksta Rap"
- Episode – "There's Something About Marrying"
- Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
- Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan"
- Episode – "Mobile Homer"
- Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
- Episode – "Future-Drama"
- Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer"
- Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid"
- Episode – "A Star Is Torn"
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday"
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer"
- Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"
- Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees"
- Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
- Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning"
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
- Episode – "The Italian Bob"
- Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
- Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where"
- Episode – "My Fair Laddy"
- Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
- Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies"
- Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife"
- Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie"
- Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore"
- Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
- Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
- Episode – "Regarding Margie"
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit"
- Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
- Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..."
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII"
- Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
- Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa"
- Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)"
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"
- Episode – "The Wife Aquatic"
- Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
- Episode – "Little Big Girl"
- Episode – "Springfield Up"
- Episode – "Yokel Chords"
- Episode – "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh"
- Episode – "Homerazzi"
- Episode – "Marge Gamer"
- Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"
- Episode – "Crook and Ladder"
- Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!"
- Episode – "24 Minutes"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want"
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
- Episode – "The The 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 – "All About Lisa"
- Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
- 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 – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
- Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"
- Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
- Episode – "Waverly Hills 9021-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"
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
- Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
- Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
- Episode – "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"
- Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
- Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
- Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
- Episode – "The Color Yellow"
- Episode – "Postcards From the Wedge"
- Episode – "Stealing First Base"
- Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
- Episode – "American History X-cellent"
- Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
- Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
- Episode – "To Surveil With Love"
- Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
- Episode – "The Bob Next Door"
- Episode – "Judge Me Tender"
- Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
- Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
- Episode – "MoneyBART"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
- Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
- Episode – "The Fool Monty"
- Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
- Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
- Episode – "Donnie Fatso"
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe"
- Episode – "Homer the Father"
- Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
- Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
- Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"
- Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
- Episode – "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing"
- Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
- Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
- Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
- Episode – "500 Keys"
- Episode – "The Ned-Liest Catch"
- Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
- Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII"
- Episode – "Replaceable You"
- Episode – "The Food Wife"
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Producer
Interviewee
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
