Lewis "Lew" Morton is an American television writer. He has written for several shows, including Saturday Night Live (from 1993-1995[1]), NewsRadio, Family Guy and Futurama.[2] He worked as a producer for Undeclared, but never authored any episodes. He also executive produced the film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. During his time on Futurama[3] Lewis wrote twelve episodes, making him and writer Ken Keeler the two writers who wrote the most episodes on that show as well as the most known.
Lewis also went to the same primary school as David X. Cohen. Morton also attended Harvard University, where he worked on The Harvard Lampoon.[4]
Awards
2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) on Futurama.
2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)[5] on Futurama.
Nominated
2001 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program[6] on Futurama.
1999 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program[7] on Futurama.
Writing credits
NewsRadio episodes
Futurama episodes
- "A Big Piece of Garbage"
- "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
- "Brannigan, Begin Again"
- "Raging Bender"
- "Mother's Day"
- "Amazon Women in the Mood"
- "The Cyber House Rules"
- "Anthology of Interest II" (with David X. Cohen, Jason Gorbett, Scott Kirby)
- "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV"
- "The Late Philip J. Fry"
- "Calculon 2.0"
- "Murder on the Planet Express"
Family Guy episodes
- "Encyclopedia Griffin"
- "The Heartbreak Dog"
References
- ^ "Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ Adler, Jerry (October 10, 1993). "GO TO HARVARD. WRITE JOKES. MAKE $$$". Newsweek. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Awards Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Awards Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Awards Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.