Brent Forrester is an American writer and producer, who has written for 6 Emmy Award-winning television comedies. He wrote several episodes of the animated television sitcom ''

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'' between 1993 and 1997. He has worked as a writer on ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Super Fun Night'' and ''

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''. He served as head writer and executive producer on ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Office'' and ''

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''. Forrester has also written feature films.

Early life

Forrester, the son of physician James S. Forrester, grew up as a surfer in Malibu, CA. As an undergraduate John Jay Scholar at

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he worked on the university's student TV station, and returned to Los Angeles to begin a career as a TV writer. At Columbia, he roomed with future

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mayor Tim Kelly in Carman Hall.

Career

Forrester wrote for ''

'' between 1993 and 1997. He wrote the episodes: " Homer vs. Patty and Selma",Mirkin, David. (2005) Commentary for "Homer vs. Patty and Selma", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Sixth Season'' VD 20th Century Fox. "

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", the Krusty Burger segment of "

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", and "

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". "Homerpalooza" was based on a story by David X. Cohen, although Forrester wrote the script. To do research for the episode, Forrester went to one of the

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concerts, which ended up being a horrible experience. Several of the jokes in the episode are based on his experiences: cameras (including his own) were being seized and thrown in the garbage, there were numerous advertisements, several "sour faced teens", a real freak show and at one point a stranger approached Forrester and asked "how's it going,

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?" Forrester has also served as executive producer on ''

'', and written for ''

'', ''

'' and ''

''. He served as a writer and consulting producer on ''

''. He has written seven episodes of the show including " The Merger" and "

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" and directed the episode " Casual Friday". He also directed a 2008 series of webisodes of the show, and wrote the NBC.com web series '' In Gayle We Trust''. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1996 film ''

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''. Forrester is writing the film ''The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie'' with

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, and a sitcom pilot for

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. Forrester also voiced Leon the Drug Addict in the episode of ''King of the Hill'' "Junkie Business". In May 2012, he became an executive producer for the final season of ''The Office''. In 2014, Netflix announced a two-season comedy series entitled ''

'' co-created by director

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, and

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, with Forrester as executive producer. In 2019–2020 Forrester is executive producer of ''

'' directed by

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and starring

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Writing credits

''The Simpsons'' written episodes

Forrester has written (or co-written) the following episodes: *" Homer vs. Patty and Selma" (February 26, 1995) *"

" (May 14, 1995) *"

" ontributor(April 14, 1996) *"

" (May 19, 1996)

''Mr. Show'' written episodes

Forrester has co-written (with Dino Stamatopoulos) the following sketches from the following episodes: *"The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost" (December 5, 1997) ketch: "Pre-Taped Call-In Show"*"Rudy Will Await Your Foundation" (November 9, 1998) ketch: "Audition"

''Undeclared'' written episode

Forrester co-wrote (with

) the following episode: *"The Perfect Date" (February 19, 2002)

''The Office'' written episodes

Forrester has written or co-written the following episodes: #" The Merger" (November 16, 2006) - Season 3 #"

" (February 15, 2007) - Season 3 #"

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" co-written with Justin Spitzer (April 26, 2007) - Season 3 #"

Did I Stutter? "Did I Stutter?" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy television series ''The Office'', and the show's sixty-ninth episode overall. Written by Brent Forrester and Justin Spitzer, and directed by Randall Einhorn, ...

" co-written with Justin Spitzer (May 1, 2008) - Season 4 #"

Business Trip Business travel is travel undertaken for work or business purposes, as opposed to other types of travel, such as for leisure purposes or regularly commuting Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residenc ...

" (November 13, 2008) - Season 5 #" Blood Drive" (March 5, 2009) - Season 5 #"

Mafia "Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original “Mafia”, the Sicilian Mafia and Italian Mafia. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of d ...

" (October 15, 2009) - Season 6 #" New Leads" (March 18, 2010) - Season 6 #"

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" (February 3, 2011) - Season 7 #"

Work Bus "Work Bus" is the fourth episode of the ninth season of the American comedy television series ''The Office'' and the show's 180th episode overall. The episode originally aired on NBC on October 18, 2012. The episode was written by Brent Forrester ...

" (October 18, 2012) - Season 9 #" A.A.R.M." (May 9, 2013) - Season 9

''Love'' written episodes

Forrester has written or co-written the following episodes: *"One Long Day" (February 19, 2016) - with Lesley Arfin and

*"The Table Read" (February 19, 2016)

Directing credits

''The Office'' directed episodes

Forrester has directed the following episodes: #" Casual Friday" (April 30, 2009) - Season 5 #" New Leads" (March 18, 2010) - Season 6 #" Test the Store" (March 1, 2012) - Season 8 #" The Target" (November 29, 2012) - Season 9

References

External links

Brent Forrester's Official Website
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