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Sam Means is an American comedy writer. He won three Emmy awards for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , [1] and wrote for both 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation on NBC [2] as well as all four seasons of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. [3] Together with Robert Carlock, he created the Netflix animated show, Mulligan . [4]

Means received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, and an M.Phil. in philosophy from King's College, Cambridge. He began his career as a cartoonist for The New Yorker and as a contributing writer for The Onion .

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