Suppose you recognize the whole lot there may be to find out about Comedian Ebook Man from The Simpsons? Certain, you might brag to your pals that he earned his grasp’s diploma in folklore and mythology by translating The Lord of the Rings into Klingon. You might know that he was as soon as married (effectively, in a role-playing sport). You would possibly even know his given identify is Jeff Albertson, as he admitted within the “Homer and Ned’s Hail Mary Move” episode.
You would possibly even be among the many many followers who’ve insisted to Simpsons creator Matt Groening that they know the real-life Comedian Ebook Man. “I can’t inform you what number of instances folks have come as much as me and mentioned, ‘I do know who you based mostly that comedian ebook man on. It’s that comic-book man proper down the block,’” Groening advised TV Information. “And I’ve to inform them, ‘No, it’s each comedian ebook retailer man in America.’”
However nobody exterior of The Simpsons writers’ room appears to know the actual individual on whom Comedian Ebook Man relies. That’s, till now.
TV author Eva Anderson confirmed up on the most recent episode of the Speaking Simpsons podcast to speak to hosts Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert in regards to the “Final Exit to Springfield” episode. Alongside the way in which, she dropped a mint-condition nugget about Comedian Ebook Man’s real-world inspiration.
In response to Anderson, somebody named John Brian King is the person behind the animation. “I met him a number of instances, and he labored at a ebook retailer,” defined Anderson. “He has an internet site and stuff, however he was the one who was consuming fried clams when the Simpsons writers came visiting to the shop.”
Uproxx related extra dots, noting that Simpsons scribe George Meyer as soon as revealed that Comedian Ebook Man was impressed by an worker on the Amok bookstore in Los Angeles, “sitting on the excessive stool, type of lording over the shop with that supercilious perspective and consuming behind the counter a giant Styrofoam container filled with fried clams with numerous tarter sauce.”
John Brian King might certainly be the muse that impressed Meyer and different Simpsons writers, however he’s decidedly cooler and extra completed than the Cheeto-stained Comedian Ebook Man. Anderson calls him a “very humorous, sarcastic man. He’s additionally a title designer. He did the titles for (Paul Thomas Anderson’s) Punch Drunk Love.”
Anderson met King in her early 20s. “I used to be a receptionist for his spouse, who was a well-known music supervisor,” she mentioned. “However all of us went to dinner collectively. Once you meet this man, there’s no query that he’s the complete Comedian Ebook Man mannequin.”
Greatest Speaking Simpsons episode ever.
