2 Bad Weeks in 35 Years

21 Mar 2023 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube interview titled "2 Bad Weeks in 35 Years" (created/uploaded by Clegg). Speaker A describes writing a memoir, My 30 Years at the Simpsons, and explains the book unintentionally became a "love letter" to the show; notes there were "maybe two bad weeks in 35 years." Speaker B frames the show's workplace as a microcosm of good corporate culture where shared values and common cause make collaboration work.

You are famous to most people who will know you as one of the writers from the TV show the Simpsons.
You know, I wrote a book. I wrote a memoir, My 30 Years at the Simpsons. To be candid, one reason I wrote this book was to get fired. I just said, all right, I'm gonna, you know, I'll do this book. I won't ask anyone and they'll fire me and finally I can move on with my life. But the book just turned out to be a love letter to the Simpsons. And it was only then I realized, oh, yeah, there's no dirt 35 years. And there were maybe two bad weeks in 35 years where people were not getting along.
You know, I mean, it's a microcosm of what a good corporate culture is supposed to be that if you all get along and share values and have common cause, it should work.