Ian Maxtone-Graham

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Crew Information Job: Writer, producer Birth date: July 3, 1959 (1959-07-03) Status: Active First episode: "Burns, Baby Burns"(as writer)

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
  • 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
  • Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Behind the Laughter (with other staff)
• 2001
  • Won an 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

Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" Episode – "Trash of the Titans" Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" Episode – "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" Episode – "Tennis the Menace" Episode – "The Blunder Years" Episode – "Large Marge" Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" Episode – "Catch 'em If You Can" Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" Episode – "24 Minutes" with Billy Kimball Episode – "Dangerous Curves" with Billy Kimball Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" with Billy Kimball Episode – "The Color Yellow" with Billy Kimball

Consulting Producer

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)" 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"

Co-Executive Producer

• Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders"
• Episode – "Pygmoelian"
• Episode – "Bart to the Future"
• Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
• Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
• Episode – "Homer the Moe"
• Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
• Episode – "Large Marge"
• Episode – "The Bart of War"
• Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
• Episode – "Midnight Rx"

Executive Producer

Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch" Episode – "Home Away From Homer" Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer" Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..." Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (as Hellion Maxtone Graham) Episode – "G.I.D'oh" Episode – "Moe 'N' a Lisa" Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" Episode – "Kill Gil Vols. 1&2" Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!" Episode – "24 Minutes" 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" Episode – "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" Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Ian Axed-Own-Grandma) 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 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" Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as Ian Skullbone-Graham) Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada" Episode – "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "MoneyBART" Episode – "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"

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