Dan Greaney

Daniel Greaney is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons and The Office. He was hired during The Simpsons{{'}} seventh season after writing the first draft of the episode "King-Size Homer",{{cite video | people=Greaney, Dan|date=2005|title=The Simpsons season 7 DVD commentary for the episode "King-Size Homer"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}} but left after season eleven. He returned to the Simpsons staff during the thirteenth season, and remains involved with the series (as a consulting producer and occasional writer) into the present day.

Life and career

Greaney attended Harvard College, where he was president of Harvard Lampoon and editor of the Harvard Lampoon's nationally distributed parody of USA Today. He also worked as an editorial assistant at The Boston Globe.{{cite news|author=Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein|title=An animated conversation|work=The Boston Globe|date=2009-07-22|page=14}}{{cite news|title=Howard U. Works in Silence on Humor Magazine|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=1999-10-27|page=B1|first=Darryl|last=Fears}}{{cite news|title=A USA Today Of A Different Color|work=The Record|date=1986-09-16|first=Barbara|last=Hoffman|page=B05}}{{cite news|title=Today's Students Not Apathetic, Just Wiser|date=1984-05-27|work=The Boston Globe|author=Dan Greaney}} At Harvard Law School, he edited a student publication, competing against a rival publication edited by Barack Obama.{{cite news |last1=Cavna |first1=Michael |title=Hi-diddily-ho, here's everything you've ever wanted to know about 'The Simpsons' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/hi-diddily-ho-heres-everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-simpsons/2018/06/13/77809d14-6f2f-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html |access-date=December 31, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 14, 2018}} He graduated from Harvard in 1987.{{cite news|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/09/alumni.simpsons.html|title=Regarding Homer|access-date=2010-02-14|date=September 1997|work=Harvard Magazine|first=Mary|last=Christ}}

After college, he worked as a reporter for USA Today and co-authored a book entitled Truly One Nation with USA Today founder Allen H. Neuharth. He subsequently attended Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York for two years,{{Cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/1996/5/20/homer-paloozafrom-a-harvard-perspective-pthe-glowing|title=Homer-palooza...from a Harvard perspective|author=William E. Rehling|publisher=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=2010-07-28|archive-date=2010-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100802033605/http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/1996/5/20/homer-paloozafrom-a-harvard-perspective-pthe-glowing|url-status=dead}} during which time he co-founded PME, a television and media company operating in Ukraine and several other former Soviet republics.

Greaney coined the word embiggen in 1996 for "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode from season seven of The Simpsons.{{cite video | people=Oakley, Bill|date=2005|title=The Simpsons season 7 DVD commentary for the episode "Lisa the Iconoclast"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}

Greaney has worked on numerous film projects, most notably as composer on Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Greaney is credited with writing "Bart to the Future", an episode of The Simpsons from 2000 that presented the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency, which would be realized sixteen years later.{{cite news|last1=Addley|first1=Esther|title=Simpsons writer says President Trump episode was 'warning to US'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/17/simpsons-president-trump-prediction-was-meant-as-warning-to-us|access-date=9 November 2016|agency=The Guardian|date=17 March 2016}}