Ken Keeler
Birth Name:
Kenneth Charles Keeler
Birth Place:
United States
Profession
Writer, Producer, Soundtrack
Fast Facts
- Won two Annie Awards for Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production for "The Simpsons" in 1998 and 2004
- Won two Writers Guild of America Awards for Animation for "Futurama" in 2003 and 2011
- Has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a Ph․D․ in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University
- Worked in a research job at Bell Labs after college, which he quit after a year to try his hand at writing for "The Late Show with David Letterman․"
- Quote: "(On switching to writing): "Bender's ["Futurama" character] serial number is 1729, a historically significant integer to mathematicians everywhere; that 'joke' alone is worth six years of grad school, I'd say․""
- Best known as the writer and executive producer of "Futurama" and the writer and producer of "The Simpsons․"
- Performed Chopin's "Polonaise in C Minor" for the "Futurama" episode "Godfellas" where the character Bender is playing the piano
- In the "Futurama" episode "The Prisoner of Benda," the theorem that saves the day is a real one that he proved because the writers were curious if their storyline was actually possible
Awards
- 1992Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program:Nominated
- 1996Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Nominated
- 1997Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music and Lyrics:Winner
- 1997Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Winner
- 1998Annie - Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Television Production:Winner
- 1998Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music and Lyrics:Winner
- 1999Annie - Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production:Nominated
- 1999Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Nominated
- 2001Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour):Nominated
- 2002Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour):Winner
- 2003Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour):Nominated
- 2003Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music and Lyrics:Nominated
- 2003WGA Award (TV) - Animation:Winner
- 2004Annie - Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production:Winner
- 2004Annie - Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production:Nominated
- 2004Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music and Lyrics:Nominated
- 2004Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour):Nominated
- 2011Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program:Winner
- 2011WGA Award (TV) - Animation:Winner
- 2012Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program:Nominated
- 2014Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program:Nominated