Arnie Kogen is an American comedy writer and producer. He had written for TV, film, and a longtime writer for Mad Magazine.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Kogen contributed to Mad soon after college at New York University. He moved on to writing for Candid Camera, The Les Crane Show, The Jackie Gleason Show and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

In 1965 he co-wrote the feature film Birds Do It, starring Soupy Sales.

He moved to California with his family in 1968. His many variety and sitcom credits include The Dean Martin Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Rich Little Show, The Tim Conway Show, The Golden Globes (1972–1975), Donny and Marie, An Evening at the Improv, Newhart, Empty Nest, and MADtv.

Kogen has written comedy material for many entertainers including Steve and Eydie, Totie Fields, Flip Wilson, Jackie Vernon, Sammy Davis, Jr., Debbie Reynolds, Connie Stevens and Shelley Berman.

Kogen has won 3 Emmy Awards (7 nominations) and one WGA Award (3 nominations).

Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950) is an American producer and writer who has worked on such productions as Saturday Night Live, PBS' Great Performances, and It's Garry Shandling's Show.

Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Zweibel grew up in the New York City suburbs of Wantagh and Woodmere on Long Island. He graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1968 and The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1972.

Upon graduation from college, Zweibel started writing for stand-up comedians who paid him seven dollars a joke. He later compiled over 1,100 of them into a portfolio which he showed to producer Lorne Michaels who then hired Zweibel to be one of the original writers of a new show called Saturday Night Live.

During his five years at SNL (1975–1980), Zweibel wrote many memorable sketches including the Samurai for John Belushi, and helped to create the characters of Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella, both played by Gilda Radner. In fact, on Weekend Update, Radner read letters supposedly from Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey who in real life was Zweibel's brother-in-law and did live in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Jay Steven Kogen (born May 3, 1963) is an American comedy writer.

Jay Steven Kogen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Mad writer Arnie Kogen, and Sue Kogen (née Hirsch). His paternal grandparents, Samuel Kogen and Pauline Gorin, were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), while his maternal grandparents, Harold Hirsch and Ida "Chicky" Ellenberg, also Jewish, were born in New York. On his father's side, he is a distant relative of 1930's actor John Garfield.

In 1968 his family relocated to Los Angeles, California. In 1981 he graduated from Birmingham High School.

He has co-written several episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons along with former writing partner Wallace Wolodarsky. Since then, he has written for several shows, including an Emmy Award winning stint at Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, George Lopez, and Malcolm in the Middle. Kogen also made an appearance in The Aristocrats. He was a consulting producer on The Class, co-writer of the Dave Foley/David Anthony Higgins 1997 film The Wrong Guy, as well as being a former stand-up comedian.

Alan Bernstein, OC FRSC became President and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in May 2012.

Prior to his position at CIFAR, Dr. Bernstein was the inaugural executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, an alliance of independent organizations around the world dedicated to accelerating the development of a preventive HIV vaccine. Bernstein resigned in June 2011.

As Executive Director, Dr. Bernstein oversaw the Enterprise Secretariat in implementing activities to support the goals and mission of the Enterprise, including the development of the 2010 Scientific Strategic Plan for HIV vaccine development and facilitating and integrating the activities of the Enterprise partners to ensure their effective implementation of the Enterprise Scientific Strategic Plan.

Prior to leading the Enterprise, Dr. Bernstein served as the founding president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) from 2000 – 2007. During that time, he led a transformation in how health research is organized and funded in Canada and increased Canada’s health research budget by 2.5 fold.

Eric Raymond Gilliland is an American television producer, writer, actor and whistler.

Gilliland was born and raised in Glenview, Illinois. He graduated from Glenbrook South High School in 1980 and earned a MFA from Northwestern University School of Communication in 1984.

In the end credits of the Roseanne series finale, Roseanne says "Thank You" to Eric Gilliland who had left the show at the end of season eight. Gilliland was set to remain as executive producer through season nine...like so many, he was under the impression that the show's eighth season would be the last. He had remained on the show for a total of four years, longer than any other executive producer on the show. Roseanne asked him back to help write and run the final episode, which he did as a favor due to his respect for the show.

Gilliland is an accomplished whistler. His whistling has appeared on Sam Winch's The Lullabadeer, a number of Sumack albums, and on the soundtrack for an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. He also provided whistling accompaniment to Martha Plimpton's performance of Thunder Road on NPR's Studio 360.