Paul Simms

Paul Simms is an American television writer.

Paul spent some years of his life in Saudi Arabia, where his parents were school teachers, but began his career in television writing for Late Night with David Letterman. Simms later wrote for the HBO program, The Larry Sanders Show. He was the creator and head writer for the NBC sitcom, NewsRadio. More recently, he has directed and produced for the HBO series The Flight of the Conchords. He has also contributed pieces to The New Yorker. He also wrote a rejected sitcom pilot starring Matthew Broderick, Beach Lane, for executive producer Lorne Michaels.^[1] Simms graduated from Harvard University, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon and was a part time student security guard, often during the night shift. He is currently serving as a writer for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. He was brought in for consideration as a writer for the fourth season of The Simpsons, along with Martin creator John Bowman following most of the original writing staff leaving the show at the end of the year. The job eventually went to Conan O'Brien.

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External links

• 1989 audio interview of Paul Simms at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim
• A Paul Simms humor piece in the New Yorker
• Paul Simms at the Internet Movie Database