John Frink

He has written several episodes of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, many of which he co-wrote with his former writing partner Don Payne.

'"[3] In 2006, Payne told the Los Angeles Times that "I hooked up with a writing partner, John Frink, out of college.

[1] Frink and Payne joined the writing staff of the animated sitcom The Simpsons in 1999, participating in the show's communal rewriting process beginning in its eleventh season.

"Treehouse of Horror XI", another season 11 holdover written by the pair, was broadcast earlier than "Insane Clown Poppy", but was produced after.

On the day a show is officially cancelled, it's kind of a tradition for the writing staff to go out to a restaurant, eat a nice meal, and drown their sorrows.

So he contacted the show-runner, a guy named Mike Scully, who read our spec script and met with us, then hired us on.