Jon Vitti is a writer who is most noted for his writing for the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). He is one of the eleven writers of The Simpsons Movie and also responsible for the film adaptation of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for and was president with Mike Reiss of the Harvard Lampoon. Prior to joining The Simpsons, he had a brief stint with Saturday Night Live. He described his experiences 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.

He is the second most prolific writer for The Simpsons; his 25 episodes place him after John Swartzwelder, who wrote 59 episodes.

He 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 "So It's Come to This: A 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.

His wife, Ann, is the sister of fellow The Simpsons writer George Meyer^[1] (who was also a Saturday Night Live writer-turned-Simpsons writer who didn't like working on SNL).

[edit] Writing credits

[edit] The Simpsons episodes

He is credited with writing the following episodes:

• "Bart the Genius"
• "Homer's Night Out"
• "The Crepes of Wrath"
• "Simpson and Delilah"
• "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
• "Lisa's Substitute"
• "When Flanders Failed"
• "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
• "Radio Bart"
• "Bart the Lover"
• "Black Widower"
• "Treehouse of Horror III"
• "Mr. Plow"
• "Brother from the Same Planet"
• "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
• "Cape Feare"
• "Another Simpsons Clip Show" (credited as Penny Wise)
• "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
• "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (credited as Penny Wise)
• "The Old Man and the Key"
• "Weekend at Burnsie's"
• "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
• "Simple Simpson"
• "Marge vs. Everyone"
• "Sleeping with the Enemy"

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jon Vitti at the Internet Movie Database
• Jon Vitti interview

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