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...Meyer has made a career out of making mischief—whether calling the cops on himself and his boisterous friends or personifying the American family as a group of dysfunctional, spiky, yellow cartoons...
...profile written for the New Yorker by David L. Owen ’78, who knew Meyer during their years at Harvard, describes Meyer’s labors in that place which “Simpsons” writers know as “the room”—the Fox offices where rough drafts of episodes are painstakingly revised into hilarity...
...Indeed, Meyer rarely writes drafts of entire scripts alone, preferring instead to save his talents for the room, where the revision and perfection of others’ work takes place...
...very early point, they realized that George was too important to let out of the room,” Vitti says. “So there are a very small number of scripts that say ‘Written by George Meyer...
According to insiders, the approach Meyer uses to produce such stellar comic results at “The Simpsons,” involves an obsessive—almost inhuman—devotion to quality. “The physical pain lousy comedy costs George is incredible,” Vitti says. “You don’t want to be responsible for that...