Jon Vitti is a writer who is most noted for his well-received scripts for the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). He is one of the eleven writers of The Simpsons Movie and also responsible for the film adaptation of Alvin and the Chipmunks, which he wrote.
He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for and was president with Mike Reiss of the Harvard Lampoon. Prior to joining The Simpsons, he had a brief stint with Saturday Night Live. He described his experiences on a DVD commentary as "a very unhappy year". After leaving The Simpsons ' writing staff in its fourth season, Vitti has written for the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show and Da Ali G Show.
He is sometimes credited as "John Vitti".
He is the second most prolific writer for The Simpsons; his 25 episodes place him after John Swartzwelder, who wrote 59 episodes.
He has also used the pseudonym Penny Wise. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "Another Simpsons Clip Show" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on Simpsons DVD commentaries yet his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show".
His wife, Ann, is the sister of fellow The Simpsons writer George Meyer.
