Conan O'Brien gathered a bunch of glory era Simpsons writers together to talk about their experiences working on the show for his web talk show Serious Jibber-Jabber. The writers present are Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, Jeff Martin, and, of course, Conan O'Brien, who wrote for the show himself in its fourth and fifth seasons. It's 81 minutes of Simpsons writers talking to each other, so enjoy!
The spec episode of The Simpsons that comedy kingpin Judd Apatow wrote 22 years ago is finally getting made next season, Apatow announced in a nice, long interview with former Simpsons writer Conan O'Brien yesterday. Apatow revealed onstage at a screening of his new movie This Is 40 earlier this month that the first thing he ever wrote was an unsolicited episode of The Simpsons during the show's first season in 1990, with the episode revolving around Homer acting like a kid again after a hypnotist has a heart attack in the middle of performing on him. Homer then becomes carefree and irresponsible and best friends with [...]
Last year, Conan O'Brien launched his web series Serious Jibber-Jabber, a longform interview show that's seen him sitting down for hour-plus chats with the likes of Judd Apatow, Jack White, and Nate Silver. On Monday, he's debut a new episode that's a roundtable interview with a bunch of his fellow Simpsons writers. O'Brien, who served as a Simpsons writer/producer during its fourth and fifth seasons before leaving to become a talk show host, chose Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jeff Martin, and Jay Kogen to join him for the discussion, which, from the looks of this trailer, will be a rollicking good time.
Longtime Simpsons Executive Producer Al Jean on last night's Banksy couch gag: "We were thrilled. It was funny, I watched Mad Men last night and I wondered if this was my Don Draper letter to The New York Times. I knew just how he felt. But it was great to have a secret."
Longtime Simpsons writer/producer Al Jean reminisced to Vulture about working with the legendary movie critic Roger Ebert when he guest starred on an episode of The Critic, and it's a well-written tribute to the life and career of Roger Ebert – one of many well-written tributes to Ebert swirling around the internet this week.
