Deborah Lacusta (born March 15, 1958) is an American television writer and actress.
[1] Lacusta and Castellaneta performed together regularly and had a sketch show on Chicago local radio.
[3] In the early 1990s, Lacusta and Castellaneta pitched a script for an episode of The Simpsons to showrunner Al Jean.
Jean liked the story, but turned it down because he felt it was too similar to "Duffless", an episode that the writers were already working on.
They updated their script then, several years later, offered it to showrunner Mike Scully, who liked it, requested a few changes, and entered the result, the eleventh season's episode "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" into production.