Michael T. Scott is an American

comedy writer Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

, animation director and creator of the Happy Fatties online cartoon series, which has been featured on several notable

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sites including, YouTube,

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, Openfilm, Animation World Network,

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, Aniboom, Funny or Die and Newgrounds. He is also well-known and famous for producing the television series titled ''Kentucky Fried Memories''. Scott also wrote and produced 3 comedy albumswhich are ''Pre-chewed Appetizers'' and ''The Jim Panzee and Friends Funtime Radio Hour.''

Happy Fatties

Since 2009, Scott has created over 100 animated comedy shorts. Additional to being featured on several of the online video sites mentioned above, Scott's work was also featured on Frederator's Channel on the YouTube Original Channel Initiative. He was interviewed on Frederator Studios' blog in August 2011. In 2013, Scott relocated from Tennessee to Colorado, and partnered with animation company,

Worker Studio Worker Studio is an American animation and visual effects company based in Centennial, Colorado, founded in 2009 by Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot. The company has provided visual effects for a number of short films including Angela Bettis, Angela Bet ...

, as the studio's Head of Story from February to December. The partnership placed Scott's entire library of Happy Fatties cartoons under Worker Studio's original content. The partnership formed at the Business incubator in Centennial, Colorado,

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Phil Hartman Fan Letter

In 2011, Scott posted a handwritten letter online that he received in 1997 from Phil Hartman, and the letter went

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. Through the attention of this letter, Scott connected with Hartman's family and in May 2013, Worker Studio optioned the rights to develop ''Phil Hartman's Flat TV'', but withdrew the option later in August.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Michael T. 1977 births Living people American comedy writers American animators American animated film directors American male voice actors People from Queens, New York