Lew Morton

Lewis "Lew" Morton is an American television writer. He has written for several shows, including Saturday Night Live (from 1993-1995[1]), NewsRadio, Family Guy and Futurama.[2] He worked as a producer for Undeclared, but never authored any episodes. He also executive produced the film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. During his time on Futurama[3] Lewis wrote twelve episodes, making him and writer Ken Keeler the two writers who wrote the most episodes on that show as well as the most known.

For the baseball player, see Lew Morton (baseball).

Lewis also went to the same primary school as David X. Cohen. Morton also attended Harvard University, where he worked on The Harvard Lampoon.[4]

Awards

2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) on Futurama.

2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)[5] on Futurama.

Nominated

2001 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program[6] on Futurama.

1999 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program[7] on Futurama.

Writing credits

NewsRadio episodes
  • "Massage Chair"

Futurama episodes

Family Guy episodes
gollark: I am currently engaged in mathematical homework.
gollark: In that case, the number is more like 82.
gollark: Oh, oops, I was simulating woodchunks, not woodchucks.
gollark: According to my stochastic woodchunk simulation system, they could chuck only *73* wood units.
gollark: They only stopped after their queues ran out.

References
  1. "Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  2. "Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  3. "Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  4. Adler, Jerry (October 10, 1993). "GO TO HARVARD. WRITE JOKES. MAKE $$$". Newsweek. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  5. "Awards Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  6. "Awards Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  7. "Awards Lewis Morton (I)". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
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