Bill Oakley

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Biography

Recent Role:
on The Cleveland Show
Gender:
Male
Birthplace:
Union Bridge, Maryland
Bill Oakley was born in 1965. He met Josh weinstein at their high school in Washington D.C. Together they formed a high school humor magazine.

Bill then attended Harvard University where he was vice president of Harvard's famous humor magazine "The Harvard Lampoon".

Bill, together with Josh Weinstein, wrote for "Spy", "National Lampoon" and "America's Most Wanted" by Fox. They both went "The Simpsons" in 1992 where they have written many episodes including "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacey" and "Who Shot Mr. Burns Parts 1 & 2". In 1994 they became Executive Producers for



More "The Simpsons", for Seasons 7-8.

Bill and Josh left The Simpsons in 1998, where they created Mission Hill. In 2003 they created The Mullets.

They are now working on an untitled project that has something to do work workers in a news setting in the Times Square Precinct.

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    He and Josh Weinstein are a great comedy Duo! hide show

    I love the work of Bill Oakley, I think his years of running the Simpsons, were the best years of the show, I love his shows the Mullets and Mission Hill and I can reconise his and Josh's jokes in Futurama when they surved as consulting producers there, I think he is probaply one of the greatest writers ever! All the scripts he has written are great and I personally think Mission Hill should have run for at least seven or eight seasons and then moved on and started the Mullets because that would've lasted longer because he and Josh would've gotten a greater reputation, but sadly because it was stupidly cancelled by WB execs that didn't happen. Infact, Mission Hill was probaply better than Futurama and the Mullets was probaply better than Season 4 of Family Guy. But sadly he isn't as big of a success as someone like Al Jean or Mike Scully, and I think that's wrong because in my opinion I feel he did a better job running the Simpsons than Al Jean's seasons 13-18 and Mike Scully's four years put togethor. A truly great writer!

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