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Jay Kogen - Writer/Producer/Director/Eater of Pizza, has been in show business since he was 5 years old. He is an actor, director, stand-up, and Groundlings alum but mostly he has written and produced many of the most popular TV comedies over the last 30 years. He helped develop and wrote on the first five seasons of The Simpsons.  He wrote and produced Frasier, Malcolm In The Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, The George Lopez Show, School of Rock, and Henry Danger to name a few.  He has written, rewritten, punched up many films including Eddie Murphy’s The Nutty Professor, the Austin Powers comedies, the Shrek films, Madagascar, Zombieland 2, and the academy award nominated Kubo And The Two Strings. Jay has won many awards including a WGA Award, The Humanitas Award, a People’s Choice Award, and a Golden Rose of Montrose (whatever that is). Jay has been nominated for 14 Emmy awards and won 4 of them.  He’s had numerous pilots written and made. He created a show based loosely on his life, Wendell and Vinnie, and he co-wrote and produced the cult comedy, The Wrong Guy, which won the HBO Comedy Festival Award.  Jay is currently writing and producing pilots and writing a movie he wants to direct, proudly teaching his future employers at USC, and hosting a brand new podcast called “Don’t Be Alone with Jay Kogen” where he bring famous funny people on to talk about his personal problems.