Ken Keeler

Ken Keeler is a writer and executive producer for Futurama. He helped create Futurama, and for the first three seasons was listed as a co-executive producer, but by thefourth season was listed as executive producer.

He was previously a writer for The Simpsons. Ken has written many songs for both Futurama and The Simpsons, winning for the latter show. He has also won a Writers Guild of America Award for the episode "Godfellas".

Keeler wrote both the finale of the original run, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", and the fourth and final of the movies, "Into the Wild Green Yonder", both of which were designed to fit as series' finales. He also wrote the upcoming "Futurama Reincarnation", which is so far set to be the final Futurama episode.

A character in the series, Ben Beeler, is based on Ken.

Keeler has a Ph D in Applied Mathematics, which has helped him write several of the nerdier jokes on the show (see 1729 for example).