Janis Hirsch

Janis Hirsch (born c. 1950) is a comedy writer best known for producing and writing for television series, including Frasier, Will & Grace, My Wife and Kids, Anything But Love, LA Law, The Nanny, Til Death, Square Pegs, the National Lampoon show, Murphy Brown, and It's Garry Shandling's Show. She has written books and for several publications including the New York Times and National Lampoon magazine. In 2017, Hirsch revealed that after writing two acclaimed episodes (of the first six) of It's Garry Shandling's Show, she was serially harassed on set and eventually fired by Brad Grey, without pay, from her writing position. 2About Hirsch had polio when she was 10 months old and uses crutches to walk. She is Jewish and was born in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1963, when she was 13, Hirsch wrote a condolence letter to Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hirsch was raised in Ewing Township, where she graduated from Ewing High School in 1968. She said she left as soon as she could, and attended and graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She worked for the Coconut Grove Playhous