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Jon Vitti
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He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a screenwriter or consultant for several animated and live-action movies, including Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). He is one of the eleven writers of The Simpsons Movie and also wrote the screenplays for the film adaptions Alvin and the Chipmunks and currently is writing Angry Birds for Rovio. Vitti is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for and was president with Mike Reiss of the Harvard Lampoon.
He was also very close with Conan O"Brien while at Harvard.
Prior to joining The Simpsons, he had a brief stint with Saturday Night Live. He described his experiences on a Digital Video Disc commentary as "a very unhappy year".
After leaving The Simpsons" writing staff in its fourth season, Vitti wrote for the Home Box Office series The Larry Sanders Show. Beginning in its seventh season, he had been a writer for The Office.
He is the third most prolific writer for The Simpsons.
His 25 episodes place him after John Swartzwelder, who wrote 59 episodes, and Tim Long, who wrote 26. Vitti has also used the pseudonym Penny Wise. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "Another Simpsons Clip Show" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on Simpsons Digital Video Disc commentaries (though his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show ).
On the season four Simpsons episode "The Front," Jon Vitti is caricatured as a Harvard graduate who gets fired from I&South Studios for penning mediocre episodes and gets hit on the head with a name plate by his boss, Roger Meyers.
Vitti was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for and
