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Who Dan Harmon
Age 40
New gig Creator/showrunner of Rick and Morty on Adult Swim. Also on Season 5 of Community.
Old gig Creator/showrunner of Community, from which he was fired after three seasons.
So how did Rick and Morty, your new animated original series, begin?
Justin [Roiland, co-creator] had always been sort of playing around with these very intense, strange characters. They started off as a kind of punk rock, sneering immolation of a relationship we all grew up on, which is the one between Doc Brown and Marty McFly, and they kind of evolved from there.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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