Brian Scully

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Brian Scully
Born (1953-08-10) August 10, 1953 (age 68)
Occupation Television writer and producer and Creative Consultant
Years active1988-present

Brian Scully (born August 10, 1953 [1] in West Springfield, Massachusetts) [2] is an American television writer and producer.

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Scully initially worked as a TV salesman before eventually getting a job writing on Out of This World . After the show was canceled, Scully was unemployed for over a year but a residual payment of $20,000 for Out of This World reruns helped pay his health insurance costs after his wife gave birth to their premature child. [2] He has written episodes for The Simpsons (such as "Lost Our Lisa") [3] and Complete Savages . He has produced The Drew Carey Show [4] and The Pitts . He is the older brother of long-time The Simpsons writer and showrunner Mike Scully, [5] and has a second brother called Neil. [4] He currently works on Family Guy as a writer and consulting producer. [2]

The Simpsons episodes

Brian Scully wrote the following episodes for The Simpsons:

Family Guy episodes

Brian Scully wrote the following episodes for Family Guy:

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  2. 1 2 3 Verrier, Richard (2007-10-15). "Residuals Key Issue in Writing Negotiations". Los Angeles Times .
  3. "BBC - Programmes categorised as Comedy". BBC. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
  4. 1 2 "Cries & whispers too interesting to ignore - Life can be cartoon material". Union-News. 1999-12-06. p. A02.
  5. Breneman, John (2007-07-22). "No place like Homer Massachusetts scribe Mike Scully tells of work on 'Simpsons Movie'". Boston Herald .