Article: The Real Mayor of Springfield.(Al Jean's twenty years with "The Simpsons")(Biography)

By Michael Malone

Simpsons showrunner keeps Fox rolling in Doh!

When Al Jean first showed up in the Simpsons writing room in 1989, he never imagined he'd still be giving life to Homer, Bart and the gang 18 years later. Nor did he expect to be helming a show that's nothing short of a full-fledged pop-culture phenomenon. Id never dreamed that it'd be something I'd be talking about almost 20 years later, he says.

Jean has been guiding the show since its transition from clips on The Tracey Ullman Show to what Fox Programming Executive VP Craig Erwich humbly calls 'probably one of the greatest TV shows in the history of the medium.' As the animated ...

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