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![]() ![]() Christopher Miller & Phil Lord executive producers and creators Phil: Scudworth, Genghis; Chris: JFK, Mr. Butlertron |
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Phil Lord is the one with the big, curly hair. Christopher Miller is the other one. Both discovered a love of drawing during childhood -- Lord in Coconut Grove, Florida, and Miller in Lake Stevens, Washington. At their respective high-schools, Ransom Everglades School in Miami and The Lakeside School in Seattle, they began to write comedy and make cartoons. They went on to attend Dartmouth College, where it was only a matter of time before the two creative forces collided in dramatic fashion: Miller accidentally set Lord's girlfriend's hair on fire. The two became fast friends. The girl, Heather C. Melanson of Worcester, Massachusetts, is on her way to a full recovery. At Dartmouth, both Lord and Miller penned comic strips for the daily newspaper, The Dartmouth. Lord's was a weekly cartoon rant called Loud Mouth and Miller?s featured a chain-smoking squirrel with his own talk show called Sleazy The Wonder Squirrel. At the same time, Miller was editor-in-chief of the campus humor magazine, The Jack-O-Lantern. Lord convinced Miller to take an animation class together, and for four years they shared a studio and created award-winning animated short films. A feature in the Dartmouth alumni newsletter led to a call from the Walt Disney Company, who wanted to meet the duo. Upon graduation in 1997, the guys road-tripped to Los Angeles and signed a Disney development deal to create Saturday morning cartoons. After many attempts at children's shows which were deemed "too hot for Saturday morning," they were hired by the Touchstone TV division to create prime-time programming. There, Lord and Miller wrote for two Touchstone-produced sitcoms: Zoe on the WB, and Go Fish on NBC. It was also at Touchstone where they first created the idea for Clone High. Executive producer Bill Lawrence (creator of NBC's Scrubs, cocreator of ABC's Spin City) teamed up with the duo to shepherd them through the development and production of the project. Clone High was eventually picked up by MTV, making Lord and Miller, both 27, the youngest showrunners in Hollywood. They were never heard from again. |
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![]() Tom Martin, supervising producer |
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Tom Martin is funnier than you are. Hes probably funnier than everyone you know even your drunken uncle who can quote every line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Tom has won two Emmy Awards for his writing on Fox TVs The Simpsons. He has a pilot in development with Disney Television and he has a booming side business in feature film writing. He recently wrote Its A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, which aired on NBC in November 2002. Prior to The Simpsons, Tom worked as a writer and Executive Story Editor for such hilarious situation comedies as NBCs Just Shoot Me and The Naked Truth. He was also a frequent guest writer on Saturday Night Live. Tom has a beautiful wife, two children, a dog, and a lawn that is the envy of the neighborhood so hes happier than you, too. Tom is also smarter, taller, stronger, and better looking than you are. And his dad can beat up your dad.
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