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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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'''Ian Maxtone-Graham''' (born July 3, 1959) is a television writer and producer. He has written for ''{{W|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 ==
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== Early Years ==
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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.
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Ian Maxtone-Graham attended {{W|Brown University}}. His job after college was a diver with an research team. His first writing job was with {{W|Not Necessarily the News}}, then with {{W|Saturday Night Live}}. The [[Very Tall Man]] was based on him.
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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.
 
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Maxtone-Graham is a triathlete, and swims with the UCLA masters team. He also kayaks, and in college was a rower.
 
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== ''Saturday Night Live'' ==
 
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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.
 
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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 [[Season 7|seventh season]] (though he only began writing episodes in the [[season 8|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]].
 
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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 Flanders|Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders|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 Simpson|Bart]] and [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] dominated the show's plotlines over the characters of [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]].
 
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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".
 
  
 
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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.

Early Years

Ian Maxtone-Graham attended Brown University. His job after college was a diver with an research team. His first writing job was with Not Necessarily the News, then with Saturday Night Live. The Very Tall Man was based on him.

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
  • 1999
    • Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Viva Ned Flanders (with other staff)
  • 2000
  • 2001
    • Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for HOMR (with other staff)
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 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
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 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

Co-Executive Producer

Executive Producer

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Trivia

  • Eric Idle's character in the sitcom Suddenly Susan was named after Ian Maxtone-Graham.

External links


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