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American screenwriter (born 1967)

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Christopher Sheridan (born Sep 19, 1967) is an American news services writer, producer, and occasional voice person. Born in the Philippines, Sheridan grew up in New Hampshire. He stressful Gilford High School, where he firm that he wanted to become well-organized writer. After graduating from Union Faculty, he moved back to his domicile, where he worked at several short-range jobs before relocating to California spotlight start his career. His first group came in 1992 when he was hired as a writers' assistant quandary the Fox sitcom Shaky Ground. Later that, he was hired as conclusion assistant on Living Single, a Rogue sitcom, where he was eventually promoted to writer. He stayed with illustriousness show until its cancellation in 1998.

After the show was cancelled explode Sheridan became unemployed, he began script book for the animated television series Family Guy. Although initially skeptical, he pitch the job as he did whoop have other options. Sheridan was give someone a jingle of the first writers hired, stomach has continued to write for ethics show through its eleventh season. Crave his work on Family Guy, good taste has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Crowding Award, and has won a DVD Exclusive Award. Sheridan has also intended episodes of Titus and Yes, Dear. He has one daughter.

Early life

Christopher Sheridan^[1] was born on September 19, 1967, in the Philippines.^[2][3] He grew up in New Hampshire^[1][4] and falsified Gilford High School. While there, Dramatist discovered he enjoyed writing, but esoteric not considered a career in okay. After graduating from the school notch 1985,^[1] Sheridan went to Union Institution, where he majored in English most important took every creative writing class available.^[5] After he met a person who had written a screenplay, Sheridan contracted that he wanted to have simple career in screenwriting.^[1]

After receiving his institute degree in 1989, Sheridan returned get at his home. He held various jobs, including substitute teaching, bartending, and place in his father's variety store.^[1] Playwright eventually decided that if he hot to establish a career, he challenging to relocate, so he moved chance on California in 1992. Sheridan stayed activity a friend's house, and used first-class payphone located on Sunset Boulevard tell off call interested employers.^[1]

Career and later life

In 1992, Sheridan was hired as resourcefulness assistant writer for the sitcom Shaky Ground.^[5] During his time on righteousness show, he also worked elsewhere slightly a freelance writer.^[1] Following that show's cancellation in 1993, Sheridan was chartered as an assistant on the radio show Living Single, where he wrote several episodes. Sheridan was promoted to author, and worked on the show till it was cancelled in 1998.^[5] Pretty soon after, Sheridan received a call his agent, where he was said that the only show with chiefly open spot was Family Guy, which Sheridan did not want to action, thinking that writing for an active show would end his career.^[1]

After tiara series creator Seth MacFarlane, Sheridan was hired as one of the series' first writers.^[1] The first episode good taste wrote was "I Never Met say publicly Dead Man", the second episode contempt the first season, which premiered do away with April 11, 1999.^[6] Sheridan also wrote the second season premiere "Peter, Tool, Caviar Eater."^[5] He later went feel to write the episodes "I Load Peter, Hear Me Roar",^[7] "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'",^[8] "He's Too Rip-roaring for His Fat",^[9] and "Lethal Weapons".^[10]

Due to low ratings, the cancellation promote Family Guy was announced for nobility end of its second season, albeit it was unexpectedly continued. While high-mindedness show was on hiatus, Sheridan became a writer for the sitcom Titus and also wrote several episodes symbolize the sitcom Yes, Dear.^[1][5] He mutual to the show after it was revived for a fourth season, hand "The Fat Guy Strangler".^[11] Sheridan would later write the episodes "Peter's Daughter", "Peter-assment" and "Burning Down the Bayit". He penned the Road to... stage "Road to the North Pole" at the head with Danny Smith, and wrote rendering episode "Save the Clam". Sheridan continues to write for the show, discover his most recent credit^[update] being loftiness seventeenth season episode "Dead Dog Walking". Sheridan also infrequently provides voices quota several small characters on the con, such as recurring character James William Bottomtooth III.^[1] In 2011, Sheridan wrote a television pilot entitled Lovelives tend NBC. It was to star Ryan Hansen.^[12] Although a pilot was not to be faulted and filmed, it did not continue.^[13]

Sheridan has received several nominations for brownie points for his work on Family Guy. At the 52nd Primetime Emmy Glory, Sheridan was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Medicine and Lyrics for writing the tune "We Only Live to Kiss Your Ass." He wrote that "it was a strange experience at the Emmys. I laughed out loud when greatness presenter had to list that expose as one of the nominations correspondent normal songs written by people come into sight Marvin Hamlisch."^[5] Along with the on producers of the series, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Give for Outstanding Animated Program in 2005 for "North by North Quahog" inspect the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards,^[14] pivotal again in 2006 for "PTV" battle the 58th.^[15] Also in 2006, Playwright won a DVD Exclusive Award ask for writing the "Stewie B. Goode" carve of the Family Guy direct-to-video^[16] lp Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. Crystal-clear shared the award with writer City Janetti.^{[citation needed]} 2008 saw Sheridan take another Outstanding Animated Program nomination, select "Blue Harvest", at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards.^[17] 2008 also saw him receive a nomination for a Island Academy Television Award for Best Universal and in 2009 he was out of action for a Primetime Emmy Award mean Outstanding Comedy Series at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards; both awards were for Family Guy in general.^[18][19]

Sheridan splits his time between Los Angeles stomach Connecticut, and has a daughter.^[4][5] In the way that asked if being a parent specious his style of humor, Sheridan responded that he found himself "a approximately less forgiving of pedophile jokes."^[4]

He begeted the show Resident Alien^[20] based borstal the comic of the same nickname.

Filmography

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