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Kenneth Keeler (Born 1961) is an American
United States

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 comic
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 writer
Writer

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 and producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
. He has written for numerous TV series, most notably The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
 and Futurama
Futurama

Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
.

r graduating from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, he studied applied mathematics
Applied mathematics

Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the mathematical techniques typically used in the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains....
 at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. He earned a Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 in applied mathematics in 1990; his doctoral thesis was on Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation.

After earning his doctorate, Keeler joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.






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Kenneth Keeler (Born 1961) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 comic
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 and producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
. He has written for numerous TV series, most notably The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
 and Futurama
Futurama

Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
.

Biography

After graduating from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, he studied applied mathematics
Applied mathematics

Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the mathematical techniques typically used in the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains....
 at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. He earned a Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 in applied mathematics in 1990; his doctoral thesis was on Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation.

After earning his doctorate, Keeler joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He soon left Bell Labs to write for David Letterman
David Letterman

David Michael Letterman is an United States comedian, known for hosting the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS since 1993. Letterman's Irony, often Surreal humour comedy is heavily influenced by former The Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Jack Paar....
 and subsequently for various sitcoms, including several episodes of Wings
Wings (TV series)

Wings is an United States sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997. Starring Timothy Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett, the show was set at the fictional Tom Nevers Field, a small airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Hackett brothers operated Sandpiper Airlines....
, News Radio, The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
 (where he caught harsh criticism from fans for writing the season nine episode "The Principal and the Pauper
The Principal and the Pauper

"The Principal and the Pauper" is the second episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons . It first aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company network in the United States on September 28, 1997....
"), Futurama
Futurama

Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
, and The Critic
The Critic

The Critic is an United States animated series that revolved around the life of Film criticism #Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, both of whom had worked as writers on The Simpsons....
, as well as the short-lived FOX
Fox

A fox is an animal belonging to any one of about 27 species of small to medium-sized Canidae, characterized by possessing a long, narrow snout, and a bushy tail, or brush....
 claymation show The PJs
The PJs

The PJs was a stop motion animated television series created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It centers around life in an urban Detroit public housing project....
.

Keeler was instrumental in the creation of Futurama
Futurama

Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
, and served as a co-executive producer in its first three years, and as an executive producer
Executive producer

The title of executive producer , or executive in charge of production, typically describes a film producer, television producer, radio producer, record producer, or similar Stakeholder who doesn't participate in the technical operations of the production process, but who is still responsible for the success of a project....
 in its fourth year. He was one of the show's most prolific writers, with nine episodes to his name (including the original series finale, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings

"The Devil?s Hands Are Idle Playthings" was the original series finale of the animated television series Futurama. It is the eighteenth episode in the fourth production season and was aired for the first time in the United States on August 10, 2003 as the sixteenth episode of the fifth broadcast season....
", and the Writers Guild Award-winning episode "Godfellas
Godfellas

"Godfellas" is the twentieth episode of the third production season of Futurama. It was first shown in North America on March 17, 2002, as the eighth episode in the fourth broadcast season....
"). Keeler wrote many of the original songs on both The Simpsons and Futurama during his time with the shows. He also wrote the direct-to-DVD Futurama movies Bender's Big Score
Futurama: Bender's Big Score

Futurama: Bender's Big Score is an Annie Award-winning direct-to-video film based on the list of animated television series Futurama. It was released in the United States on November 27, 2007....
 and Into the WIld Green Younder
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is the last of four planned straight-to-DVD Futurama movies. The DVD and Blu-Ray were released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on February 23, 2009, while the film itself premiered on February 6, 2009 at New York Comic Con....


Keeler is also a fan of (but of no relation to) Harry Stephen Keeler
Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler was a prolific but little-known United States author....
 and won the . His Futurama episode "Time Keeps on Slippin'
Time Keeps on Slippin'

"Time Keeps On Slippin" is the 14th episode in season 3 of Futurama. It originally aired May 6, 2001. The title is from a lyric in Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band....
" was partly inspired by the (Harry Stephen) Keeler story "Strange Romance" from the novel Y. Cheung, Business Detective.

Having cowritten a paper with Jeff Westbrook
Jeff Westbrook

Jeff Westbrook is a Screenwriting best known for his work on The Simpsons and Futurama.Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a successful algorithms researcher....
, Keeler has an Erdos number
Erdos number

The Erdos number , honoring the late Hungary mathematician Paul Erdos, is a way of describing the "collaborative distance" between a person and Erdos,...
 of 4.

Writing Credits


The Simpsons episodes


  • "A Star Is Burns
    A Star is Burns

    "A Star Is Burns" is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons . It first aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States on March 5, 1995....
    "
  • "Two Bad Neighbors
    Two Bad Neighbors

    "Two Bad Neighbors" is the 13th episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 14, 1996....
    "
  • "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)
    El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)

    "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer ", also known as The Mysterious Voyage of Our Homer, is the ninth episode of the The Simpsons of The Simpsons, which originally aired January 5, 1997....
    "
  • "Brother from Another Series
    Brother from Another Series

    "Brother from Another Series" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons and originally aired February 23, 1997....
    "
  • "The Principal and the Pauper
    The Principal and the Pauper

    "The Principal and the Pauper" is the second episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons . It first aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company network in the United States on September 28, 1997....
    "
  • "Treehouse of Horror VII
    Treehouse of Horror VII

    "Treehouse of Horror VII" is the first episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons and originally aired October 27, 1996. In the seventh annual "Treehouse of Horror " episode, Bart discovers his long-lost twin, Lisa grows a colony of small beings and Kang and Kodos impersonate Bill Clinton and Bob Dole in order to win the U.S....
    " ("The Thing and I")
  • "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
    The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase

    "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" is the twenty-fourth episode of the The Simpsons of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 11, 1997....
    " (story)


Futurama episodes

  • "The Series Has Landed"
  • "When Aliens Attack
    When Aliens Attack

    "When Aliens Attack" is episode twelve in season one of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on November 7, 1999. This episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Brian Sheesley....
    "
  • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders"
  • "Anthology of Interest I
    Anthology of Interest I

    "Anthology of Interest I" is episode sixteen in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on May 21, 2000. This episode, as well as the later "Anthology of Interest II", serves to showcase three out-of-canon "imaginary" stories, in a manner similar to the "Treehouse of Horror " episodes of Matt Groening's other animat...
    " (co-writer)
  • "The Honking
    The Honking

    "The Honking" is episode eighteen in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on November 5, 2000. The title comes from The Howling , a modern werewolf film....
    "
  • "Time Keeps on Slippin'
    Time Keeps on Slippin'

    "Time Keeps On Slippin" is the 14th episode in season 3 of Futurama. It originally aired May 6, 2001. The title is from a lyric in Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band....
    "
  • "Godfellas
    Godfellas

    "Godfellas" is the twentieth episode of the third production season of Futurama. It was first shown in North America on March 17, 2002, as the eighth episode in the fourth broadcast season....
    "
  • "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings
    The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings

    "The Devil?s Hands Are Idle Playthings" was the original series finale of the animated television series Futurama. It is the eighteenth episode in the fourth production season and was aired for the first time in the United States on August 10, 2003 as the sixteenth episode of the fifth broadcast season....
    "
  • "Bender's Big Score" (film: teleplay, co-writer script)
  • "Into the Wild Green Yonder
    Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

    Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is the last of four planned straight-to-DVD Futurama movies. The DVD and Blu-Ray were released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on February 23, 2009, while the film itself premiered on February 6, 2009 at New York Comic Con....
     (film: teleplay & co-writer script)


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