Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche is an English television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best known as a writer of the HBO comedy "Veep", the BBC Television series "The Thick of It" and its film spin-off "In the Loop". He is credited with inventing the word omnishambles, which was named 2012 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary. After graduating from Warwick University with a degree in English, Roche became a stand-up comedian using material from a magazine he had produced in his final year. He was spotted at one of his stand-up comedy shows and
The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase bad writing would be mistaken for actual bad writing. The episode, however, now appears on several lists of the most popular "Simpsons" episodes. Troy McClure hosts a television special from the "Museum of TV and Television" introducing three spin-off productions, created using characters from "The Simpsons". The Fox network has only three programmes prepared for the next broadcasting season, and so commissions the producers of "The Simpsons" to create thirty-five new shows to fill the remainder of the lineup. Unable to handle such a workload, the producers create only three new shows. Chief Wiggum, P.I. is a crime-dramedy spin-off and