Billy Kimball is an American writer and producer. He was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon.^[1]

Kimball began his career writing for the HBO series Not Necessarily the News. He was the host and executive producer of the satiric game show "Clash!" and the co-host (with Denis Leary) of the talk show "AfterDrive" both on the Ha! Network, a predecessor of Comedy Central.

As a writer, Kimball has worked on Saturday Night Live," Cedric the Entertainer Presents, and Lateline." He has written the Independent Spirit Awards since 2002 and been a producer on the show since 2005.^[2] He has written five episodes of "The Simpsons."

Kimball was the original executive producer of "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" from 1999 to 2001.^[2]

He has been nominated for an Emmy Award for writing^[3] and won the CableAce Award for Best Documentary. His Simpsons' episode "24 Minutes" received an Annie Award in 2007 for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production.^[4] He won the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script for Comedy/Variety Special for the 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards.^[4]

In 1994, he served as a senior manager for the United States Agency for International Development's Market Reform Project in Kiev, Ukraine.^[1][5]

Kimball has a long association with Al Franken. He was the executive producer of "InDecision '92," Comedy Central's coverage of the 1992 United States Presidential Election, which was anchored by Franken.^[3] From 2005 to 2007, he was the executive producer of The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio and Sundance Channel.

In 2009, Kimball began to appear as a commentator on "The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest..." on TruTV. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the on-line humor magazine The Old Yorker.^[6]

He is married to the former Alexandra Manuela Vargas Hamilton^[7] and has two daughters.

[edit] Simpsons episodes written by Kimball

• 24 Minutes (co-written with Ian Maxtone-Graham)
• Smoke on the Daughter
• Dangerous Curves (co-written with Ian Maxtone-Graham)
• Gone Maggie Gone (co-written with Ian Maxtone-Graham)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Kimball's blog at The Huffington Post
• Billy Kimball at the Internet Movie Database

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