Jameel Saleem (South Park / Disenchantment / Bob's Burgers)

Jameel Saleem and I discussed his watching Cheers and MASH as a kid; Jimmy Stewart; going to Hampton College with DJ Envy; wanting to be an FBI agent, then realizing he wants to be playing an FBI agent; getting small roles on Hack & The Wire; being in TV reenactments; his film, Exit Strategy; persistence; writing a freelance Ricky Smiley Show; getting first first job on Manhattan Love Story; doing a sitcom Telenovela for Eva Longoria and NBC; getting hired by South Park for a video game and still being in the writers room; the show Whiskey Cavalier; working on Disenchantment with Matt Groening; his Netflix deal; Bob's Burgers; finally not being the tallest writer in the room; Matt Selman resurrecting The Simpsons; his Loft Bed episode of Bob's Burgers; video games and Dungeons & Dragons expand imagination; his episode Dead Boats Society premiering 7/31; Louise is his favorite to write for; currently writing a Broadway play; the music on Bob's Burgers; Mike Judge; and The Towering Inferno