Michael Patrick King (born September 14, 1954) is an American director, writer, and producer.
He is best known for directing and writing for Sex and the City, And Just Like That... and its film adaptations, and for co-creating the television comedies The Comeback, 2 Broke Girls, and AJ and the Queen.
King was born to a Roman Catholic Irish American family in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He also was a member of a comedy improv group called The Broadway Local which mostly performed at Manhattan Punch Line Theatre.
[citation needed] He eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he found work writing for the television series Murphy Brown, and was nominated for several Emmys.