" Stand-up comedy was the most profitable and easily accessible route Mirkin found into the comedy industry, but " it wasn't a lifestyle that particularly coveted ," especially due to the traveling required.

In 1999, several of the Fox executives who had disliked Get a Life came to Mirkin and apologized for the way they had treated the show, stating that they now found it funny.

" Mirkin felt the experience " taught a lot about structure " which greatly aided his later work on character-focused shows.

" Mirkin considers the joke to be " an insight into the way writes.

Fox was lukewarm about the idea, but Mirkin convinced them to order a pilot by understating how dark the show would be.

Mirkin had long wished to produce a sketch show, and designed The Edge to be " fast-paced " and " some skits overlap, end abruptly or are broken into segments ," in order to maintain attention.

During re-writes, Mirkin and the other writers placed greater emphasis on the relationship between Homer and his family and on Homer's attempts to be a hero, but most of Mirkin's original script was retained.

Mirkin considers the episode to be " very very special.

Mirkin suggested Maggie Simpson as the culprit because he felt it was funnier and wanted the culprit to be a family member.

Mirkin later said that recording with the McCartneys was one of the most " amazing " experiences of his life and considers the episode to be one of his favorites.

Executive Producer David Mirkin even offered to have him make a brief appearance in a prerecorded bit in which he would be asked if he wanted to take part and he would respond, " No ," as an ironic punchline, but he refused.

Mirkin suggested Maggie because he felt it was funnier and wanted the culprit to be a family member.

Mirkin said he believes Halloween shows can be " scary as well as fun ".

It was filmed on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City and directed by David Mirkin, who later said that Fox " couldn't have been less supportive " because they thought it would be too expensive.

" Rosebud " was written by John Swartzwelder and was the first episode to be executive produced by David Mirkin, who was the show runner for the fifth and sixth seasons of the show.

" Rosebud " was written by John Swartzwelder and was the first episode to be executive produced and run by David Mirkin.

The Simpsons staff wanted to bring McCartney onto the show, and David Mirkin thought " Lisa the Vegetarian " would be an attractive story, since McCartney is a vegetarian himself.

" Mirkin said this was a joke the staff enjoyed doing because it pointed out how negative and mean-spirited news broadcasts can be, and how they are seemingly " always trying to scare everybody " by creating panic and depression.

David Mirkin wanted the scene to be violent, but Silverman stated that he thought he had animated the finished product to be too realistic.

The most important thing to Mirkin while making the episode was to make sure that the elephant would be a " bastard " and behave rudely, unlike other animals on the show.

A research group at Northwestern University led by Chad Mirkin independently studied the process and determined that under the appropriate conditions, molecules could be transferred to a wide variety of surfaces to create stable chemically-adsorbed monolayers in a high resolution lithographic process they termed " DPN ".

David Mirkin realized that Brooks was " dying to do the show " and asked him if he would be willing to do a guest part, and he agreed.

Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia and intended to become an electrical engineer, but abandoned this career path in favor of studying film at Loyola Marymount University.

Mirkin intended to pursue a career in electrical engineering, which he saw as a more stable employment opportunity than writing or film making.

The scene was directed by David Mirkin and was the first time a Simpsons character had been in the real world in the series.

The Simpsons writer David Mirkin said that one of his favorite jokes on the show is the one where Grampa cycles down the street in high speed and shouts that he feels young again, and is then knocked flying from his bicycle after a doll's head flies into the spokes and falls into an open grave.

Mirkin thinks it is hard to make a " boring " and " tedious " character, such as Grampa, funny.

The character's new addiction to coffee was suggested by writer-producer David Mirkin, who has friends who stopped drinking alcohol and became addicted to coffee.

Grammer usually joins the show's " table readings " ( wherein cast members read each script together for the first time ), and former executive producer David Mirkin described working with Grammer as very pleasant, due to his lively sense of humor.

Grammer, Mirkin says, is capable of perfect readings, but noted that the actor dislikes performing Sideshow Bob's evil laugh.

David Mirkin has noted that " he can do anything, and it fits perfectly.

Created by Brown, Charlie Coffey, and director and executive producer David Mirkin, it was a comedy about actress Julie Robbins ( Brown ), who in this initial story, goes to great lengths to land an interview with teen singer Kiki ( played by Kim Walker ) in the hopes of getting hired as a tabloid-TV celebrity journalist.

David Mirkin ( born September 18, 1955 ) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer.

After an unsuccessful attempt to remake the British series The Young Ones, Mirkin created Get a Life in 1990.

Mirkin left The Edge during its run and became the executive producer and showrunner of The Simpsons for its fifth and sixth seasons.

Mirkin has been cited as introducing a more surreal element to the show's humor, as shown by his sole writing credit for the show, " Deep Space Homer ", which sees Homer Simpson go to space as part of a NASA program to restore interest in space exploration.

Mirkin stood down as showrunner after season six, but produced several subsequent episodes, co-wrote The Simpsons Movie ( 2007 ) and remains on the show as a consultant.

Mirkin was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Northeast High School in 1975.

Throughout his childhood, Mirkin had an interest in film, and explored both writing and filming.

Mirkin lists Woody Allen and James L. Brooks as his writing inspirations and Stanley Kubrick and the work of the comedy group Monty Python as developing his " dark sense of humor.

Mirkin started out as a stand-up comedian in 1982 and performed across the United States, including at The Comedy Store, where he became a regular, and at The Improv.

Through his cousin, Mirkin met writer George Tricker who became his mentor.

Tricker wrote for the Three's Company spin-off The Ropers so Mirkin wrote a spec script for an episode of The Ropers.