article_snippet: During Sam Simon brief career, Sam Simon Sam Simon also served as the showrunner on the sitcom "Taxi" at the age of 23; wrote for and produced the comedies "Cheers" and "The Drew Carey Show"; and created a Sam Simon series for the legendary stand-up comic George Carlin in the mid-1990s.
article_snippet: Sam Simon also wrote the 1991 film "The Super," a 20th Century Fox comedy starring Joe Pesci as a New York slumlord.
article_snippet: Sam Simon showed up frequently on The Tracey Ullman Show and in March 2013 thanked the acerbic host for being "the perfect friend.
article_snippet: Levine, described Sam Simon's contribution to The Tracey Ullman Show during a 2009 interview published in Stanford Magazine.
article_snippet: Sam Simon also is credited with assembling The Tracey Ullman Show's elite writing team that included Al Jean, George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Mike Reiss, Jon Vitti and Conan O'Brien.
article_snippet: While at Stanford, Sam Simon drew cartoons for the local newspapers in San Francisco and the school paper and landed a job at Filmation Studios doing storyboards for "The New Adventures of Mickey Mouse" and "Heckle & Jeckle.
article_snippet: Sam Simon scored Sam Simon first TV writing gig on the animated "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" in 1979.
article_snippet: Sam Simon mailed in a script to "Taxi" (co-created by Brooks) that was accepted, and that led to a staff writing position
article_snippet: Sam Simon also went on to direct episodes of the Carlin show, "The Drew Carey Show," "Friends," "Norm" and "Anger Management.