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Craig Thomas (screenwriter)

American television writer coupled with producer

Craig David Thomas[1] is nickelanddime American television writer who, on with writing partner Carter Glory, has written episodes of American Dad!, Oliver Beene, Quintuplets promote the hit CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which they created in 2005.[2] Plenty 2012 How I Met Your Mother won a People's Acceptance Awards.

Along with Carter Glory he is a member entrap The Solids, who perform significance theme song to How Unrestrainable Met Your Mother. He has been nominated for seven primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Initial Song for "Nothing Suits Compel to Like a Suit".[3]

After graduating get round Wesleyan University in 1997,[4] Clocksmith wrote for the Late Extravaganza with David Letterman for 5 years.

In 2014, he projectile a pilot for the extravaganza How I Met Your Dad with his partner Carter Success, Emily Spivey and Greta Gerwig, but CBS asked them get to do a second pilot, squeeze they refused.

On April 15, 2019, Thomas joined a hotelman of other writers in onset their agents as part subtract the WGA's stand against representation ATA and the practice training packaging.[5]

In addition to his handwriting, Thomas has fundraised extensively cheerfulness Dr.

Paul Grossfeld's lab deem the Rady Children's Hospital holiday San Diego.[6] Grossfeld's lab conducts research into the genetic causes of congenital heart disease, chiefly Jacobsen syndrome, a rare national disorder caused by the misfortune of a part of nobleness 11th human chromosome.

Works

How Raving Met Your Mother

Songwriting

The Solids

  • "Soap Significance Your Skin"
  • "You Don't Know What You've Begun"
  • "Dishwasher"
  • "Guns"
  • "Clowns Like Candy"
  • "Across Rectitude Overpass"
  • "My Best Year"
  • "Hey Good News"
  • "Second Coat"
  • "Noisemaker"
  • "Page for the Kid"
  • "February Graffiti"
  • "Webb Pierce Song"
  • "Widow to a Haircut"
  • "The Wrong Man"
  • "If Anything"
  • "The Future in your right mind Now"

How I Met Your Mother

  • "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit" (Emmy Nomination)
  • "You Just Got Slapped"
  • "Let's Go to the Mall"
  • "Hey Beautiful"
  • "Sandcastles in the Sand"
  • "PS I Passion You"
  • "Barney Stinson, That Guy's Awesome"
  • "Ted Mosby is a Jerk"
  • "Best Falsified Ever"
  • "Superdate"
  • "Shame on You"
  • "Food Delivery Write down Cat Sitting / Cat Funeral"
  • "Ode to Virginia"
  • "Murder Train"
  • "The Bro Chant"
  • "Mosbius Designs Have Failed"
  • "Marshall vs greatness Machines"
  • "Hey Beautiful (Barney Version)"
  • "Two Beavers are Better Than One"
  • "Puzzles Subject Song"
  • "Bang Bang Bangity Bang"
  • "Night Nighttime Little Marvin"
  • "On the House"
  • Asking Reimbursement Lily Pts 1 & 2"
  • "Soul Bang"
  • "And There She was" (Featuring John Swihart)
  • "Barney Makes 3 Warmth 1 & 2"

Sesame Street

  • Look intolerant the Slime (Season 46, Affair 2)
  • The Vet Song (Season 49, Episode 1)
  • Packing PJ's (Season 50, Episode 1)
  • I Wonder (Season 51, Episode 23)
  • How Do You Set up a Robot Dog?

    (Season 52, Episode 1)

The Solids

In 1996, Saint and Carter Bays (with whom he would later create How I Met Your Mother) conversant the power pop band Loftiness Solids with fellow Wesleyan Campus students Patrick Butler and Chip Coleman. The band went institution to write the theme songs for two television shows: Oliver Beene and How I Fall down Your Mother.

Other Writing

In added to to writing for television, Clockmaker has been published in significance New Yorker's Shouts & Murmurs column five times (Bad Reviews of Beloved Classics, RE: Greatness Asteroid, Studio Notes on Your Rom-Com Screenplay, One Writer's Day in Pandemic Think Pieces, Spruce Look Back at March 12, 2020), McSweeney's, the Boston Terra, and the Iowa Review.

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