I take back all my annoing statements that the simpsons is no longer funny! Mabuhay Kababayan!
D’oh: Simpsons’ animator is Emmy-winning Filipino
PASCKIE PASCUA, Philippine News
02/16/2009 | 11:24 AM
Espanola, center, shows off his 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for his work on ‘The Simpsons.’ GMANews.TV
LOS ANGELES — Meet Jess Espanola, the Emmy award-winning assistant director of the popular animated TV show, The Simpsons. He is also the first native Filipino to win such a prestigious award, deemed as the television counterpart of the Oscars.
Espanola, 49, won for the episode, “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind,” which was broadcast on December 16, 2007 on FOX. The episode won last year’s Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). The show’s director is Chuck Sheetz, who also works on “King of the Hill.”
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