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Springfield Confidential, by writer and producer Mike Reiss, feels contemplative, full of awe, and braggy, in that he can’t believe he’s telling you these stories and also can’t believe The Simpsons has worked for so long. ...

Mike Reiss ... shares stories, scandals, and gossip about working with America’s iconic cartoon family and provides an inside look at the show’s writers, animators, actors and celebrity guests ..

“The Simpsons” recently ran its 636th show, surpassing “Gunsmoke” for the most episodes of a scripted, prime-time television series. ...

“Springfield Confidential” — a title that nods, of course, to the Simpsons’ unmappable home town — offers a wealth of great anecdotes, all peppered with punchlines that make Reiss’s memoir as hilarious as whichever season of “The Simpsons” you recall most fondly. ...

The ultimate gift for Simpsons fans. Longtime show writer Mike Reiss regales us with tales from the show’s history — including how its beloved characters became yellow ...

Probably because it’s the best and most important comedy TV show of, well, ever, tons of books about The Simpsons have been published. But not until Springfield Confidential has one really nailed what it’s like to work in the mystical promised land of The Simpsons’ offices ...

“The Simpsons” and the family’s ever-changing scramble to get to their couch have dominated TV screens across the world for almost 30 years, and writer/producer/showrunner Mike Reiss has been there for it all. ...

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Always honest, playful, and engaging, the book will provide fans with deep insight into the show’s history but also into its daily production and future. ...

As founding Simpsons writer and producer Mike Reiss wrote in his 2018 book Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons, which he co-authored with Mathew Klickstein, the original idea for The Itchy & Scratchy Show came from the 1940s-1950s series of animated shorts called Herman and Katnip, which Reiss calls “a cheap, ultra-violent knockoff” of Tom & Jerry. Leave it to the Harvard nerds to make a simple Simpsons joke needlessly inaccessible.

Reiss, a four-time Emmy winner who has been with "The Simpsons" for most of his career, gives readers a laugh-out-loud account of how the show came to be ...

Mike Reiss’ new book, “Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons” is a biography and tell-all of sorts about his years working on “The Simpsons”, and much more. ...

As The Simpsons nears its 30th year, few can say they were with the show since the beginning. Mike Reiss is one of them, a young TV writer who only took the gig because he didn’t get staffed on another series. ...

Das Buch trägt den Untertitel "30 Jahre Simpsons - Das inoffizielle Fanbuch" und ist seit dem 09. September 2019 auch auf Deutsch, erschienen im Heyne Verlag, erhältlich. In dem Buch werden bekannte und eher unbekanntere Fakten und Geschichten aus der Welt hinter den Kulissen der Simpsons gelüftet ...

Mathew Klickstein talks new book, Nickelodeon and The Simpsons ...

On this episode of History of the 90s host Kathy Kenzora looks back at the creation of the ground-breaking show and some of the controversy it created with help from Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson. ...

Mike Reiss reveals the origin stories of Hans Moleman, Mrs. Krabappel, and more ...

En Springfield Confidencial. Bromas, historias y secretos de toda una vida escribiendo para Los Simpson (RocaEditorial), Mike Reiss, guionista y productor, detalla junto a Mathew Klickstein datos curiosos, inéditos y memorables de la serie animada ...

Written with Mathew Klickstein, it's the first substantial book to be written about the show, with never-before-told stories ...

As a fan, I pretty much devoured Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons. ...

In his new book Springfield Confidential, longtime writer, producer and prior showrunner of The Simpsons Mike Reiss dispenses plenty of inside information on the longest-running network television show in America. ...

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It might be hard to describe a book about The Simpsons cartoon as insightful, but somehow author Mike Reiss pulls it off. ...

The Simpsons is now in its 30th season. What began as a series of recurring sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show quickly became a national phenomenon and has since become the longest-running primetime scripted series in the history of American television ...

“Why does the show endure?” legendary comedy writer Mike Reiss asks of “The Simpsons,” the show he used to run, in his forthcoming book Springfield Confidential. “Because it’s based on two fundamental principles: family and folly.” ...

It’s the first book of its kind by a true Simpsons lifer and offers an informative, frequently hilarious, and occasionally frustrating glimpse into the long career of the world’s most famous four-fingered family. ...

Springfield is full of humorous asides and fun facts, including 23 steps to making an episode and why the characters are yellow. ...

Para celebrar el próximo 30° aniversario de Los Simpsons, uno de sus guionistas desde el comienzo y también su productor, Mike Reiss, acaba de publicar (en colaboración con Mathew Klickstein) un libro con historias sobre la trastienda de su trabajo ..."

Reiss has been writing for The Simpsons since before the show went to air ... he got the job because someone else didn’t want it (“Nobody wanted to work on The Simpsons,” he tells us, as hard as that is to believe nowadays); the show, of course, was an instant smash hit, and Reiss’ career path was set ...

The book, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons, by Mike Reiss—an original Simpsons writer still at the show—and Mathew Klickstein, author of a Nickelodeon oral history, contains scads of extremely funny and fascinating background material ...

Simpsons writer Matt Reiss and author Mathew Klickstein gave a panel at Terrificon 2022 to talk about this long-running cartoon series, their experiences, and to answer fan questions.

In this always entertaining and frequently laugh-out-loud-hilarious memoir, Reiss and coauthor Klickstein take us behind the scenes not only of the long-running sitcom, but also of Reiss’ own life. ...

No one could have predicted that a family of yellow, four fingered characters would change TV and pop culture forever when The Simpsons debuted on December 17th, 1989. and is now the longest running scripted television show in American history. ...

Having written for The Simpsons off and on since the show’s premiere in 1989, he’s helped guide Homer to the perfect muumuu, pitted Bart against the continent of Australia, and forced Sideshow Bob to navigate his way through an endless sea of rakes ...

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Founding Simpsons writer Reiss offers a funny and factoid-filled glimpse behind the curtain — or, brown couch — of the beloved sitcom ...

Reiss’ new book, “Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons,” written with Mathew Klickstein, takes us on a hilarious journey through Reiss’ career, which includes writing for “The Simpsons” for most of its life. ...

Springfield confidencial (Roca Editorial) de Mike Reiss con Mathew Klickstein. Bromas, historias y secretos de toda una vida escribiendo sobre Los Simpson ...

As part of the new book Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons, author Mike Reiss provided insight into, for instance, the potent potable Duff Beer's actual name origin, debunking the claims of a certain rock n' roller. ...

If you, like me, grew up watching episodes of The Simpsons with your dad, then he will love this new book from the show's longest-serving writer and producer. ...

Mike Reiss has been a writer for “The Simpsons” for 28 years. He has won 4 Emmy Awards and a Peabody for his work on the show. A multi-talented Harvard graduate — he was president of the Harvard Lampoon — he has also written 18 children’s books, five plays and now a memoir ...

“The Simpsons” has so many running jokes—the location of Springfield, Bart’s prank calls, Burns’s hound-releasing, Lenny getting severe eye damage—but there are some that have never made it to air ...

The most common question Mike Reiss has heard from fans of “The Simpsons” over the past 30 years is a simple one: “What’s it like?” ...

“The Simpsons is one of America’s greatest cultural products of last few decades, and Mike Reiss was and remains one of its key creators. So if you like The Simpsons, why wouldn’t you read this entertaining, charming and informative insider’s chronicle? I did, and I’m better for it.”

“Mike Reiss always brings his own unique, quirky, eccentric genius with him.”

“The good is always rare. A truly great comic is rare. Mike Reiss, by definition, is a rarity.”

“Besides providing a hilarious look at what is perhaps the greatest TV show of all time, Mike Reiss has also created a staggering literary work that is almost completely devoid of typos and grammatical errors. It’s well worth the price of this book for the proofreading skills alone.”

“Reiss has done a masterful job of compiling this laugh-filled account of his long years as a writer on this beloved show. It’s the sort of book that makes you wish your dinner guests would go the hell home so you can get back to reading it.”

“Mike Reiss is a great example of somebody who writes for a living and does it so well in so many different ways. And, of course, he helped write this thing called The Simpsons.”