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Ian Maxtone-Graham (born July 3, 1959) is a television writer and producer. He has written for Saturday Night Live (1992-1995), The Simpsons (1995-present) and has also served as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for The Simpsons.
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Family and earlier work
Maxtone-Graham was born in New York City, the son of naval historian and author John Maxtone-Graham and author Katrina Maxtone-Graham (née Kanzler), and the great-nephew of the British author and poet Joyce Maxtone-Graham (pen name Jan Struther). His younger brother is Guy Maxtone-Graham, a onetime writer and actor for Beavis and Butthead.
He attended Brown University, in contrast to much of the other Simpsons crew, who went to Harvard. While at Brown, he wrote for and later served as Editor-in-Chief of the Critical Review, Brown's student publication of course evaluations. He entered Brown with the class of 1981 but graduated in January 1983.
Maxtone-Graham is a triathlete, and swims with the UCLA masters team. He also kayaks, and in college was a rower.
Saturday Night Live
While at Saturday Night Live, Maxtone-Graham co-wrote the first version of The Chanukah Song with Adam Sandler. Maxtone-Graham once dumped a cup of water on Norm MacDonald's head for smoking in the writer's room. MacDonald responded by punching Maxtone-Graham, who went home and did not return for a week. Maxtone-Graham considered filing charges against MacDonald for assault and battery, and against NBC for not enforcing the no-smoking policy, but decided against it.
The Simpsons
Maxtone-Graham was one of several writers recruited to The Simpsons from the pages of George Meyer's short-lived Army Man magazine. He joined the Simpsons crew in the seventh season (though he only began writing episodes in the eighth season) and has since written some important episodes, such as "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", in which Maude Flanders dies. In 2005, he won a Writers Guild of America award. He has written 18 episodes, the four most recent of which he co-wrote with Billy Kimball.
However, Maxtone-Graham has also become wildly unpopular among Simpsons fans on the Internet. The animosity kicked off in 1998, when he stated that he had never watched the show prior to working on it. In the same interview, he contrasted the Simpsons writers' somewhat lackadaisical approach (saying, for example, that they sometimes confused Rod and Todd) with the Internet fans' apparent obsession with continuity, and remarked, "That's why they're on the Internet and we're writing the show." The interviewer Charlotte O'Sullivan expressed discomfort with his assertion that female writers were not often part of the writing staff, as the "guy humor" of Bart and Homer dominated the show's plotlines over the characters of Marge and Lisa.
The design of the occasionally-appearing Simpsons character "Very Tall Man" (his most notable appearance being "22 Short Films About Springfield") is based on Maxtone-Graham, who in real life measures in at 6'8".
Awards
- 1996
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program
- 1997
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Homer's Phobia (with other staff)
- 1998
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Trash of the Titans (with other staff)
- 1999
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Viva Ned Flanders (with other staff)
- 2000
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Behind the Laughter (with other staff)
- 2001
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for HOMR (with other staff)
- 2002
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for She of Little Faith (with other staff)
- 2003
- Won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Three Gays of the Condo (with other staff)
- Nominated for the Emmy for Outsanding Music and Lyrics for Everybody Hates Ned Flanders from Dude, Where's My Ranch? (with Alf Clausen and Ken Keeler)
- 2004
- Won Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production for Dude, Where's My Ranch? (with Alf Clausen and Ken Keeler)
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for The Way We Weren't (with other staff)
- 2005
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Future Drama (with other staff)
- Won a WGA Award for Catch 'Em if You Can
- 2006
- Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for The Seemingly Never-Ending Story (with other staff)
- 2007
- Won Annie for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production for The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for The Haw-Hawed Couple (with other staff)
- 2008
- Won Annie for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production for 24 Minutes (with Billy Kimball)
- Nominated for an Annie for Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production for the Simpsons Movie (with James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti)
- Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind (with other staff)
- 2009
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Gone Maggie Gone (with other staff)
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy Series
- 2010
- Nominated for an Annie for writing in a Television Production for Gone Maggie Gone (with Billy Kimball)
- Nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Animation for Gone Maggie Gone (with Billy Kimball)
Credits
Writer
Consulting Producer
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Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" - Episode – "Radioactive Man"
- Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodly"
- Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul"
- Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror VI" (As Ian Headstone-Graham)
- Episode – "King-Size Homer"
- Episode – "Mother Simpson"
- Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
- Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"
- Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud"
- Episode – "Team Homer"
- Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors"
- Episode – "Scenes From The Class Struggle in Springfield"
- Episode – "Bart the Fink"
- Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast"
- Episode – "Homer the Smithers"
- Episode – "The Day the Violence Died"
- Episode – "A Fish Called Selma"
- Episode – "Bart on the Road"
- Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
- Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
- Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
- Episode – "Homerpalooza"
- Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
- Episode – "[[Treehouse of Horror VII (as Ian Tombstone Graham)
- Episode – "You Only Move Twice"
- Episode – "The Homer They Fall"
- Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
- Episode – "Bart After Dark"
- Episode – "A Milhouse Divided"
- Episode – "Lisa's Date With Destiny"
- Episode – "Hurricane Neddy"
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
- Episode – "The Springfield Files"
- Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
- Episode – "Mountain of Madness"
- Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
- Episode – "Homer's Phobia"
- Episode – "Brother from Another Series"
- Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
- Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
- Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
- Episode – "The Canine Mutiny"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa"
- Episode – "In Marge We Trust"
- Episode – "Homer's Enemy"
- Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase"
- Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
- Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
- Episode – "The Principal and The Pauper"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (As Ian Maxtone-Boo!)
- Episode – "The Cartridge Family"
- Episode – "Bart Star"
- Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
- Episode – "Realty Bites"
- Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
- Episode – "Bart Carny"
- Episode – "The Joy of Sect"
- Episode – "Das Bus"
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust"
- Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity"
- Episode – "Lisa the Simpson"
- Episode – "This Little Wiggy"
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "The Trouble With Trillions"
- Episode – "Girly Edition"
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans"
- Episode – "King of the Hill"
- Episode – "Lost Our Lisa"
- Episode – "Natural Born Kissers"
- Episode – "Lard Of the Dance"
- Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
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Trivia
- Eric Idle's character in the sitcom Suddenly Susan was named after Ian Maxtone-Graham.
External links
Ian Maxtone-Graham at the Internet Movie Database
Ian Maxtone-Graham at Wikipedia- The Simpsons Archive explains Maxtone-Graham's unpopularity.
- Maxtone-Graham's infamous interview.
- Another interview
