Ken Keeler
Ken Keeler is an American television producer and writer. He has written for numerous television series, most notably The Simpsons and Futurama. According to an interview with David X. Cohen, he proved a theorem that appears in the Futurama episode "The Prisoner of Benda".
Education and early career
Keeler studied applied mathematics at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. He then gained a master's degree from Stanford in electrical engineering before returning to Harvard.He earned a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1990. His doctoral thesis was "Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation".
After earning his doctorate, Keeler joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Career
Keeler soon left Bell Labs to write for David Letterman and subsequently for various sitcoms, including several episodes of Wings, The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Critic, as well as the short-lived Fox claymation show The PJs. For The Simpsons, Keeler has written such episodes as "A Star Is Burns" and "The Principal and the Pauper".Keeler was instrumental in the creation of Futurama, and served as a co-executive producer in its first three years, and as an executive producer in its fourth year. He was one of the show's most prolific writers, with fourteen episodes to his name. Keeler wrote many of the original songs on both The Simpsons and Futurama during his time with the shows. He also wrote the direct-to-DVD Futurama movies Bender's Big Score and Futurama: [Into the Wild Green Yonder|Into the Wild Green Yonder].
Writing credits
''The Simpsons'' episodes
- "A Star Is Burns"
- "Two Bad Neighbors"
- "Treehouse of Horror VII"
- "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
- "Brother from Another Series"
- "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
- "The Principal and the Pauper"
''Futurama'' episodes and films
- "The Series Has Landed"
- "When Aliens Attack"
- "Put Your Head on My Shoulders"
- "Anthology of Interest I"
- "The Honking"
- "Time Keeps on Slippin'"
- "Godfellas"
- "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
- Futurama: Bender's Big Score
- Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
- "The Prisoner of Benda"
- "The Tip of the Zoidberg"
- "Overclockwise"
- "The Six Million Dollar Mon"
- "Forty Percent Leadbelly"
- "Meanwhile"
- "How the West Was 1010001"
- ”Otherwise”
''The Critic'' episodes
- "List of [The Critic episodes#Season 1.281994.29|A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera]"
- "Dukerella"
''Wings'' episodes
- "Wings episodes#Season 8.281996.E2.80.9397.29|Fay There, Georgy Girl]"