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Larry Doyle | |
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Occupation | Novelist, columnist, humorist, screenwriter |
Period | 1989–present |
Genre | Humor, fiction |
Notable works | I Love You, Beth Cooper The Simpsons Looney Tunes: Back in Action |
Children | Ben Doyle |
Website | |
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Larry Doyle is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer.
Doyle got his start in 1989–1991 as an editor at Chicago-based First Comics. [1] He started writing for television, with a 1993 and a 1994 episode of Rugrats , then regularly working on Beavis and Butt-head between 1994 and 1997, when he joined The Simpsons as a writer and producer for seasons nine through twelve (1997–2001). Other television writing credits include one episode for Daria and two episodes for Liquid Television . [2]
Doyle wrote the screenplays for the 2003 film releases Duplex and Looney Tunes: Back in Action . He also produced some Looney Tunes shorts that were completed in 2003. [3] However, due to the box-office bomb of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Warner Bros. decided not to release the shorts theatrically, releasing them direct-to-video instead.
Doyle is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and has also had columns in Esquire magazine , New York Magazine, and the New York Observer [4] [5]
Doyle's first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper , was published in May 2007. The setting is graduation night at Buffalo Grove High School, Doyle's alma mater. This novel won the 2008 Thurber prize for American Humor. [6] Doyle wrote the screenplay for the film based on his novel, which was released in 2009. Also in 2009, the book I Love You, Beth Cooper was re-released as an extended movie tie-in edition. [7] His second novel, Go Mutants!, was published in 2010. This novel had its film rights acquired by Imagine Entertainment/Universal Studios the same year, with the screenplay written by Doyle. [8] Deliriously Happy (and Other Bad Thoughts), a collection of humor pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, was published in 2011.
In 2023, Doyle co-created the web-series Command Z with Kurt Andersen. Steven Soderbergh funded and directed all eight episodes, distributing them on his platform, with money raised going to Children's Aid. [9] The series was nominated for a 2024 Writers Guild of America Award in the category "Short Form New Media." [10]
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Doyle has also contributed widely to several magazines as a regular columnist or editor, including:
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