Biography: Emmy Award winner Hank Azaria executive-produces and stars in this new half-hour mid-season comedy from Touchstone Television and Columbia TriStar Television.

Azaria brings his considerable talent for creating a variety of characters to his role as Josh, a TV comedy sketch writer in the series. Each week, in addition to playing Josh, Azaria will portray at least one of the comic characters who inhabits Josh’s off-beat fantasy life – from Chloe the Jamaican psychic to a Gene Shalit-like inner critic who constantly rates Josh’s performance as a writer and a human being.

Azaria won an Emmy and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Mitch Albom in "Oprah Winfrey Presents Tuesdays with Morrie," opposite the legendary Jack Lemmon. Most recently, he starred with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts, John Cusack and Billy Crystal in the film "America’s Sweethearts" and in the critically acclaimed NBC miniseries "Uprising."

Azaria’s other feature-film credits include "Cradle Will Rock," "Mystery Alaska," "Mystery Men," "Godzilla," "Great Expectations," "Celebrity," "Quiz Show," "Heat" and "Grosse Point Blank." He was also nominated for a SAG award for his memorable role of Agador Sparticus, the scene-stealing Guatemalan houseboy in the film "The Birdcage."

On television, Azaria provides the voice for several key characters on the animated hit comedy "The Simpsons," and won another Emmy for his work on the series. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his recurring role of Nat, the dog walker, on "Mad About You."

Azaria trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and also studied theater at Tufts University. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He was born in Queens, NY on April 25th, 1964. (Courtesy, NBC Entertainment, 2001)

Television Credits:
Imagine That as Josh Miller (2002)
Uprising (made-for-tv movie) as Mordechai Anielewicz (2001)
Fail Safe (made-for-tv movie) as Prof. Groeteschele (2000)
Tuesdays With Morrie (made-for-tv movie) as Mitch Albom (1999)
Stressed Eric as voice of Eric Feeble (US version)(1998)
Mad About You as Nathaniel 'Nat' Ostertag (1996-1997)
If Not For You as Craig Schaeffer (1995)
Herman's Head as Jay Nichols (1991)
The Simpsons as the voice of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, Carl Carlson, Dr. Nick Riviera, Snake, Kirk Van Houten, Bumblebee Man, Professor John Frink, Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, and many others.
Nitti (made-for-tv movie) as (1988)