Dan Greaney
Daniel Greaney is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons and The Office. He was hired during The Simpsons The Simpsons [season 7|seventh season] after writing the first draft of the episode "King-Size Homer", but left after season eleven. He returned to the Simpsons staff during the thirteenth season, and remains involved with the series into the present day.
Life and career
Greaney attended Harvard College, where he was president of Harvard Lampoon and editor of the Harvard LampoonAfter college, he worked as a reporter for USA Today and co-authored a book entitled Truly One Nation with USA Today founder Allen H. Neuharth. He subsequently attended Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York for two years, during which time he co-founded PME, a television and media company operating in Ukraine and several other former Soviet republics.
Greaney coined the word embiggen for the 1996 "Lisa the Iconoclast" episode from season seven of The Simpsons.
Greaney has worked on numerous film projects, most notably as composer on Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Greaney is credited with writing "Bart to the Future", an episode of The Simpsons from 2000 that presented the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency, which would be realized sixteen years later.
Writing credits
''The Simpsons'' episodes
Greaney has written the following episodes:- "King-Size Homer"
- "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
- "Treehouse of Horror VII"
- "My Sister, My Sitter"
- "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
- "Realty Bites"
- "This Little Wiggy"
- "I'm with Cupid"
- "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo"
- "Bart to the Future"
- 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
- "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"
- "Bonfire of the Manatees"
- "Judge Me Tender"
- "Diggs"
- "Barthood"
- "The Great Phatsby"
- "Now Museum, Now You Don't"
- "Lisa the Boy Scout"
- "Treehouse of Horror XXXVI"
''The Office'' episodes
Greaney wrote the following episodes:Television pilots and series
Greaney worked on the following pilots and short-lived TV series in his two-year break from The Simpsons:- The Michael Richards Show - Producer
- Animals Anonymous - Creator, writer
- Long Distance - Creator, writer