Jon Vitti
Jon Vitti (born 1960) is an American writer best known for his work on the television series "The Simpsons". He has also written for "King of the Hill", "The Critic" and "The Office", and has served as a screenwriter or consultant for several animated and live-action movies, including "Ice Age" (2002), "Robots" (2005), and "Horton Hears a Who!" (2008). He is one of the eleven writers of "The Simpsons Movie" and also wrote the screenplays for the film adaptions "Alvin and the Chipmunks", and "The Angry Birds Movie". Career. Vitti is a graduate of Harvard University, where  he wrote for, and was president with Mike Reiss of, the "Harvard Lampoon". He was also very close with Conan O'Brien while at Harvard. Prior to joining "The Simpsons", he had a brief stint at "Saturday Night Live", describing his experience on a DVD commentary as "a very unhappy year." After leaving the "Simpsons" writing staff in its fourth season, Vitti wrote for the HBO series "The Larry Sanders Show". Beginning in its seventh season, he was also a writer for "The Office". He is the fifth most prolific writer for "The Simpsons". His 25 episodes place him after John  Swartzwelder, who wrote 59 episodes, John Frink who has written 33, Tim Long who has written 30, and Matt Selman who has written 29. Vitti has also used the pseudonym Penny Wise. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "Another Simpsons Clip Show" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on "Simpsons" DVD commentaries (though his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show ""). On the season four "Simpsons" episode "The Front," Jon Vitti is caricatured as a Harvard graduate who gets fired from I&S  Studios for penning mediocre episodes and gets hit on the head with a name plate by his boss, Roger Meyers. Personal life. His wife, Ann, is the sister of fellow "Simpsons" writer George Meyer (who was also a "Saturday Night Live" writer-turned-"Simpsons" writer who did not like working on "SNL"). He is a distant cousin of Los Angeles Lakers trainer Gary Vitti, award-winning author Jim Vitti, and actor Michael Dante (the stage name of Ralph Vitti). Writing credits. Section::::"The Simpsons" episodes. He is credited with writing the following episodes: Vitti was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding  Writing in a Comedy Series for "Hank's Sex Tape" and "Everybody Loves Larry". He was also credited as co-executive producer for 30 of the 89 episodes.