James L. Brooks

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James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a three-time Academy Award, nineteen-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winning American producer, writer, and film director.

He is best known for producing the American television show The Simpsons (in which he created miscellaneous characters, including the Bouvier family), Rhoda and Taxi.

Brooks had a cameo in The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Born-Again". He also played a semi-fictional version of himself in friend Albert Brooks's comedy Modern Romance as an opinionated film director.

• Brooks often sat in the studio audience of shows that he produced in the 1970s. Viewers can usually tell whether Brooks was in the audience by his distinctive loud guffaw. He would also make occasional cameo appearances.
• On The Simpsons annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween episodes, Brooks is credited as "James Hell Brooks", "Chains Hell Brooks", "Maims Hell Brooks", "Veins Hell Brooks", "James 'Just One Hug' Brooks" "James 'Dangerous Though Cuddly' Brooks", and "James 'Bemused But Bloodthirsty' Brooks".
• He has donated over $175,000 to Democratic Party candidates.[1]
• In The Simpsons episode "Kill Gil", his May 9 birthday is listed on the day calendar.
• In one episode of The Simpsons, Bart and his friends are watching a porno graphical titled "Broadcast Nudes", an allusion to Brooks's film Broadcast News.