Frank Mula

He wrote for Cosby, Madame's Place, Grand, The Simpsons, and created the series Local Heroes which lasted 7 episodes.

He graduated from South River High School, and earned a master's degree from Rutgers University.

In the late 1970s, he moved to California to pursue a career in writing comedy, after having success in faxing jokes to Joan Rivers.

[1] For his work on The Simpsons, Mula won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program.

[2] Simpsons showrunner Mike Reiss remembered Mula as a quiet man who spoke little in the writers' room but was brilliant when he did.