Michael "Mike" Reiss is an American television comedy writer. He served as a show-runner, writer and producer for the animated series The Simpsons and co-created the animated series The Critic. He created and wrote the webtoon Queer Duck and has also worked on screenplays including: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who!, The Simpsons Movie and My Life in Ruins. He was born to a Jewish family in Bristol, Connecticut. He was the middle child of five children, and his father was a doctor. Mike Reiss attended Memorial Boulevard Public School, Thomas Patterson School and Bristol... Eastern High School and has stated that he felt like an "outsider" in these places. Reiss then went to Harvard University where he became co-president of the Harvard Lampoon along with Jon Vitti. It was there that he met Al Jean. Reiss has frequently collaborated with Al Jean as his writing partner. Reiss started his career in television in the 1980s.
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