Math­ew Klick­stein received his BFA from the screen­writ­ing pro­gram at Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, co-cre­at­ed a week­ly tele­vi­sion show for Nation­al Lam­poon, wrote Steven Seagal’s only hor­ror film (for good or ill) and direct­ed a fea­ture-length rock­u­men­tary about a ​“dis­abled rock band.” He is also the director/​producer of On Your Marc, a doc­u­men­tary about TV icon Marc Sum­mers. And he’s the co-writer of Mike Reiss’ mem­oir Spring­field Con­fi­den­tial: Jokes, Secrets, and Out­right Lies from a Life­time Writ­ing for The Simp­sons. His book Nerd­ing Out was pub­lished in Chi­na in late 2017, and his jour­nal­ism work has appeared in such pub­li­ca­tions as Wired, New York Dai­ly News and Split­sider.