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Simpsons writer Matt Warburton ’00 was sitting in the audience at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 13 when he felt a sudden flush of nerves. The Emmy nominees for Best Animated Program under one hour were being announced, and as the primary writer of the Simpsons episode nominated in that category, he was feeling tense...
...really exciting, strange experience. It was low pressure, but I got really nervous when they said the names of the nominees,” Warburton says...
Despite his jitters, Warburton walked home with the award for his episode, “Three Gays of the Condo...
...talent was similarly present, with alumni producers behind two nominated features, “Futurama” and “The Simpsons,” which was nominated in the category for the episode “Three Gays of the Condo,” written by Matt Warburton...
Like Smallville, director Barry Sonnenfeld's parody The Tick bets that old-fashioned superhero tales will not, so to speak, fly today. The dim-bulb hero (Patrick Warburton, Seinfeld's Puddy) is a font of cockeyed metaphors ("I will spread my buttery justice over your every nook and cranny!"), and in the pilot he fights a Soviet robot built in 1979 to kill Jimmy Carter, as if to admit that the very idea of the infallible superhero is decades outdated. Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, this is exactly the kind of highly ironic, hero-puncturing entertainment that...