Bob Weiskopf Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Comedy for "Maude" in 1974
• Won a Laurel Award from the Writers Guild of America for TV Writing Achievement in 1988
• Attended the University of Chicago, but dropped out in his sophomore year to begin working
• Started out as an auditor at the Olympia Fields Country Club and as ad writer for newspapers
• First began collaborating with Bob Weiskopf on a script for the sitcom "Make Room for Daddy․"
• Worked on radio scripts for shows like "The Bob Hope Show," "The Rudy Vallee Show," and "The Fred Allen Show․"
• Wrote and produced several television shows with Bob Weiskopf, including "I Love Lucy" and its spin-off shows, "All in the Family," and "The Carol Burnett Show․"
• Best known as a writer of "I Love Lucy" and a script consultant and writer of "All in the Family․"
• Began writing for "I Love Lucy" after he and Bob Weiskopf ran into Weiskopf's old roommate, show creator Jess Oppenheimer, on the lot where the show was being filmed
• His first professional humor material to appear on-air was two jokes he sold to Bob Hope, who used them in a New Years Eve show