Won two consecutive Writers Guild Awards in the category Outstanding Script - Episodic Comedy, for the episodes "Rooms with a View" and "No Sex, Please, We’re Skittish․"
Earned his bachelor's in English from Carleton College and his master's in English from the University of Chicago
Began his career as a writer for the cartoon "Rugrats" during the 1990s
Best known as the writer and executive producer of "Frasier" and "Desperate Housewives․"