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[[Image:Eichler.jpg|right|frame|''Daria'' creator Glenn Eichler as a [[Real Person Fiction#Glenn Eichler|cartoon character]], seen in "Fair Enough" and "I Loathe a Parade"]]

'''Glenn Eichler''' is a comedy writer and producer. He is known as the chief writer and producer of ''[[Daria (TV series)|Daria]]'',. writingHe wrote or cowritingco-wrote fourteen episodes, writingwrote both ''Daria'' TV movies, wrote the bulk of [[Mystik Spiral]]'s songs, and servingserved as story editor.

Glenn Eichler served as the managing editor of the American humor magazine ''National Lampoon''. It is not known how long he served in this capacity, but he was editor as least as early as 1983. A notice in the weddings section of the''The New York Times'' mentions his upcoming marraigemarriage to Michele TomaskikTomasik on September 24, 1983. (Ms. Tomasik was the editor of ''[[The Daria Diaries]]''.)

In addition to his work with ''National Lampoon'', Eichler was a freelance writer for ''Esquire, The Village Voice'', and the''The New York Times''. Non-''B&B'' television work from Eichler before ''Daria'' included story editor positions at UPN cartoon ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_and_the_Monster The Mouse and the Monster]'' and [[MTV Animation]] production ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maxx#TV_series The Maxx]''. He also served as the writer for the 1992 Mystery Science Theater 3000 documentary ''This is MST3K''.

:'''Well, I guess Beavis was my big break. I was an editor at National Lampoon, during MTV's youth, and came over to MTV as a promo writer, and Beavis happened to come out of the promos department, because a very creative producer there, named John Payson, found Beavis, at I believe the Spike and Mike's Twisted Film Festival. To make a long story short, the little short that Mike Judge produced got a big reaction immediately from MTV viewers, and they wanted to rush into production and start making cartoons, but they didn't have a staff, so they used the promo writers as the writers, and that's how I became a cartoon writer, I guess.'''

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During his time working at Beavis and Butt-head, Eichler would edit ''[[This Book Sucks|Beavis and Butt-head: This Book Sucks]]'' and ''The Beavis and Butt-head Ensucklopedia''. He also wrote ''Bill and Hillary's 12-step Guide to Political Recovery'' in 1995 with the British comedy group Spitting Image and wrote ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Katz,_Professional_Therapist Dr. Katz's] Me at a Glance'' in 1996.

After Daria finished, Eichler stated that he was "just keeping busy". He worked on MTV pilots based on "Mystik Spiral" (which have never been aired) and ''Hey Joel'' (which was briefly a cartoon series). He also worked as a Creative Consultant on the animated television programs ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.I.T.C.H._%28TV_series%29 W.I.T.C.H.]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Grady O'Grady]''. He wrote episodes for programs such as ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_&_Small Big & Small]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_School The Emperor's New School]''.

Eichler isthen currentlyserved as a writer/producer on ''The Colbert Report'', a show mocking right-wing American news with Stephen Colbert taking on a fictional persona as a conservative blowhard. It is on the Comedy Central network in the United States. The show's writing team, including Eichler, wrote the book ''I Am America (And So Can You!)'', credited to Colbert's character. Eichler has won two Emmy Awards as part of ''The Colbert Report'''s writing team.

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