Mike Judge

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Biography

Recent Role:
Beavis on Beavis and Butt-head
Gender:
Male
Born:
10-17-1963
Birthplace:
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Birth Name:
Michael Craig Judge
A former engineer, Mike Judge achieved animation renown for his dead-on idiot savant satire of American suburban teen culture in the MTV phenomenon Beavis and Butthead.
Born in Ecuador and raised in Albuquerque, NM, Judge got a degree in physics at U.C. San Diego. Relocating to Texas, Judge worked as an engineer and also tried to forge a career as a musician, but found that animation was his preferred calling. After a Dallas animation festival, Judge's 1991 short Office Space was picked up by Comedy Central. His 1992 short Frog Baseball, featuring two sadistic teen cretins voiced by
… More Judge, subsequently led to a 1993 MTV animated series revolving around the heavy metal-loving adolescents Beavis and Butthead.

Anchored by the pair's witty critiques of music videos ("this blows, huh-huh-huh"), Beavis and Butthead attracted devout fans with its astutely low-brow take on the teen boy culture of raging hormones, loud music, fast food, and pyromania. Despite fierce criticism of its overt idiocy and a 1993 scandal involving its influence on a fire-setting viewer, Beavis and Butthead ran for several years, spawning lucrative merchandising and Judge's first big-screen feature, Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996). Judge branched out into network TV in 1997 with Fox's popular, Emmy-nominated animated comedy series King of the Hill, featuring executive producer Judge as the voice of laconic Texas propane salesman and family man Hank Hill.

Bringing his sweetly jaundiced view of American suburbia to live-action film, Judge expanded his early short into the full-length feature Office Space (1999). Humorously chronicling the myriad forms of office cubicle and chain restaurant hell, with visually clever detours into the suburban white male affection for gangsta rap, Office Space wickedly celebrated one man's revolt against 1990s corporate culture and became a small hit. Despite his success with live action, Judge continued working primarily in animation. Along with his ongoing work on King of the Hill, Judge also added his voice talents to the outrageously tasteless yet smart South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999). Judge is married and has two children.

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    10 Perfect

    This man is an absolute genius.

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    Michael Craig Judge (Born October 17, 1962) is an animator best known for creating some of the best cartoons ever. Beavis and Butt-Head, and King of the Hill. The humor never gets old in any of his shows (not including The Goode Family), his voice work is fantastic, and his shows can have you laughing so hard until you piss yourself. He is very inspiring and very creative, if you have not seen his works, please go watch them now.



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    10 Perfect
    He created two of my favorite cartoons ever! hide show

    King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead are two of the funniest cartoons, let alone shows, of all time. Though the animation wasn't the greatest, the laughs never ended with Beavis and Butthead. The humor is so simple, which makes the show so great. I love many of the characters on the show. Also, King of the Hill is an excellent show. The older I get, and the more I watch it, the more I seem to like it. I didn't always get all the humor, but I like how the show didn't copy too much from The Simpsons, like another show I know whose first word starts with an F, and its second word with a G. It shows which creater has more originality. He's always stuck to his thing, and done it well.

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    simpsonian100 Added Jul 10, 2008 All my reviews
 

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