Mike Scully (born October 2, 1956 in West Springfield, Massachusetts) is an Emmy Award-winning American television writer best known for his work as show runner of the Fox series The Simpsons from 1997 - 2001 (Seasons 9-12). He began as a writer/producer on the show during Season 5 and wrote several episodes that aired in Season 6, including "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" and "Lisa's Rival". During Season 13, he wrote and executive produced "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation". He was a writer on Everybody Loves Raymond for part of Season 7 and all of Season 8, and co-created (with Julie Thacker) The Pitts for Fox and Complete Savages for ABC. He started his career by writing jokes for Yakov Smirnoff. He is the co-writer and co-executive producer (with Al Jean) of The Simpsons Movie. An op-ed on Slate argues The Simpsons changed from a realistic show about family life into a typical cartoon during Scully's years as executive producer of The Simpsons. "But under Scully's tenure, The Simpsons became, well, a cartoon.... Episodes that once would have ended with Homer and Marge bicycling into the sunset (perhaps while Bart gagged in the background) now end with Homer blowing a tranquilizer dart into Marge's neck."blank">http://www.slate.com/id/2078501/ According to _Ken Levine, Scully walked a picket line in the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike while on crutches.http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2007/11/notes-from-picket-line.html

Michael John Scully (born November 1, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American football center in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Illinois.

Got his start writing jokes for Yakov Smirnoff.