Larry Doyle is a former recurring writer and producer on The Simpsons. He also wrote for the MTV animated series, Beavis and Butthead and its spin-off series, Daria. He wrote two feature films: the dark comedy Duplex, directed by Danny DeVito (who voiced Homer's half-brother, Herb) and starring Ben Stiller (who was on the season 13 episode "Sweets and Sour Marge") and Drew Barrymore (who was on the season 12 episode "Insane Clown Poppy") and the live-action/animated comedy adventure, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, directed by Joe Dante and starring Brendan Fraser (who was on the season nine episode "King of the Hill") and Jenna Elfman. Doyle also directed several Looney Tunes shorts that went straight to DVD following the box office failure of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and are criticized for being wildly out of character for the franchise compared to the classic shorts.
Doyle also wrote the romantic comedy novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, which won the 2008 Thurber prize for American Humor and was adapted into a movie in 2009 (Doyle also wrote the screenplay).
His second novel, Go Mutants!, was published in 2010. This novel had its film rights acquired by Imagine Entertainment/Universal Studios the same year, with the screenplay written by Doyle. Deliriously Happy (and Other Bad Thoughts), a collection of humor pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, was published in 2011.
In 2023, Doyle co-created the web-series Command Z with Kurt Andersen. Steven Soderbergh funded and directed all eight episodes, distributing them on his platform, with money raised going to Children's Aid. The series was nominated for a 2024 Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Short Form New Media."
Doyle is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and has also had columns in Esquire, New York Magazine, and The New York Observer.
Credited Episodes[]
Writer[]
Episode – "Girly Edition" - Episode – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (As The Bride of Lichtenstein)
Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" - Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
- Episode – "Pygmoelian"
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
- Episode – "Worst Episode Ever"
Producer[]
- Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" (Co-Producer)
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (Co-Producer; as Larrrrrry Doyyyyyyyle)
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- Episode – "Pygmoelian"
- Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (Supervising Producer)
- Episode – "Homer the Moe" (Supervising Producer)
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XII" (Supervising Producer)
Story Editor[]
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as The Thing That Wouldn't Doyle)
- Episode – "The Cartridge Family"
- Episode – "Bart Star"
- Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
- Episode – "Realty Bites"
- Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
- Episode – "Bart Carny"
- Episode – "Das Bus"
- Episode – "King of the Hill"
- Episode – "Lost Our Lisa"
- Episode – "Natural Born Kissers"
- Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
