Dan Greaney

American television writer
Daniel Greaney is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons and The Office. He was hired during The Simpsons seventh season after writing the first draft of the episode "King Size Homer", but left after season eleven. He returned to the Simpsons staff during the thirteenth season, and remains involved with the series (as a consulting producer and occasional writer) into the present day.

Greaney attended Harvard College, where he was president of Harvard Lampoon and editor of the Harvard Lampoon's nationally distributed parody of USA Today. He also worked as an editorial assistant at The Boston Globe. At Harvard Law School, he edited a student publication, competing against a rival publication edited by Barack Obama. He graduated from Harvard in 1987. After college, he worked as a reporter for USA Today and co authored a book entitled Truly One Nation with USA Today founder Allen H. Neuharth. He subsequently attended Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York for two years, during which time he co founded PME, a television and media company operating in Ukraine and several other former Soviet republics. Greaney coined the word embiggen in 1996 for "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode from season seven of The Simpsons. Greaney has worked on numerous film projects, most notably as composer on Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Greaney is credited with writing "Bart to the Future", an episode of The Simpsons from 2000 that presented the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency, which would be realized sixteen years later.