--- name: "Alex Gregory" canonical: "https://film.one/person/alex-gregory" fi1m_id: "alex-gregory" imdb_id: "nm0339733" tmdb_id: 176041 wikidata_id: "Q131323857" roles: ["Writer","Producer"] reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 81 average_as: "writer" average_over: 6 updated: "2026-10-23T04:09:30.609065+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Alex Gregory ## Identity Alex Gregory - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alex-gregory - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** alex-gregory - **IMDb ID:** nm0339733 - **TMDB ID:** 176041 - **Wikidata ID:** Q131323857 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131323857, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/176041 Writer and producer. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Producer - **Active:** 1992–present - **Also known as:** 亚历克斯·格雷戈里 - **Frequently works with:** [Peter Huyck](https://film.one/person/peter-huyck.md), [Alan Myerson](https://film.one/person/alan-myerson.md), [Brad Hall](https://film.one/person/brad-hall.md), [David Mandel](https://film.one/person/david-mandel.md), [Jon Vitti](https://film.one/person/jon-vitti.md), [Saladin K. Patterson](https://film.one/person/saladin-k-patterson.md), [Steven Levitan](https://film.one/person/steven-levitan.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as writer, over 6 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 87 (3), 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 71 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 80 across 6 titles - **Score spread:** 5 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 5, Drama 2, Family 2, Animation 1, War & Politics 1 - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131323857, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/176041 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Larry Sanders Show*](https://film.one/tv/the-larry-sanders-show.md) (91), [*Veep*](https://film.one/tv/veep.md) (82), [*White House Plumbers*](https://film.one/tv/white-house-plumbers.md) (58) - **Hulu:** [*Frasier*](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) (88) - **Apple TV:** [*The Studio*](https://film.one/tv/the-studio.md) (84) - **Disney+:** [*King of the Hill*](https://film.one/tv/king-of-the-hill-1997.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Alex Gregory > A career writer in other people's rooms, from *Frasier* to *Veep*, who finally co-created something of his own with *The Studio*: fluent, well-observed satire of institutions that is fond of its targets, sometimes more fond than it should be. The executives in *The Studio* (2025) love films. That is the whole engine of the thing. They can recognise a good idea when it walks into the office and they know, before the meeting is over, that the business will not let them make it. Alex Gregory has said where that came from: a meeting Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg once had with an executive who told them he had got into the business because he loved films, and now his job was to ruin them. It is the joke Gregory has been near for most of his working life, people inside an institution who know exactly what they ought to do and cannot. He started as a gag writer on *Late Show with David Letterman* in 1996 and 1997, drew cartoons for The New Yorker, and then spent the late 1990s and early 2000s on the staffs of *Frasier*, *The Larry Sanders Show* and *King of the Hill*. We rate all three highly, and we will be honest about the limit of that: a staff writer's lines cannot be picked out of a series like that, and we will not pretend to. What we can say is that *The Larry Sanders Show*, with its staff working flat out to keep one needy man calm, is the nearest ancestor of *The Studio*, and Gregory was in that room. Later he wrote and produced on *Veep* for its fifth, sixth and seventh seasons, which by our count covers two of its good years and the loud one. His longest partnership is with Peter Huyck, whom he met at Stanford. Together they co-wrote and co-directed a feature, *A Good Old Fashioned Orgy* (2011), and co-created *White House Plumbers* (2023), which tells the Watergate story from the side of E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. We have not reviewed it. Reviews at the time were divided over whether it held its tone between farce and history, and that is a criticism worth keeping in mind, because the same question hangs over the work we have seen. *The Studio* is where we can judge him properly, and our verdict was warm with a reservation. The scripts, written with Huyck, Rogen, Goldberg and Frida Perez, are tight and often painfully funny, because the characters' love of the work makes every compromise more embarrassing. We laughed a great deal, and somewhere past the halfway mark we were tired, because each episode winds the panic higher and none of them makes anyone pay for it. The affection that gives the series its sting is also what lets everybody off. A harder writer would have picked a victim. Gregory has never been a hard writer, and there is no sign he wants to be. He is a craftsman of the well-run room, someone who makes the machinery of a good comedy turn without drawing attention to himself. A second season of *The Studio* is coming. We would like it to be a little crueller, and we suspect it will be a little kinder. ## Biography Alex Gregory is an American writer and producer for television and film. He began his career as a gag writer for the *Late Show with David Letterman* (1996–1997) and contributed cartoons to *The New Yorker*. His television writing credits include episodes of *Frasier* (1998–1999), *The Larry Sanders Show* (1998), *King of the Hill* (2000–2003) and *Veep* (2016–2019). He co-created the miniseries *White House Plumbers* (2023) and co-created and co-wrote the series *The Studio* (2025) with Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck and Frida Perez. Gregory has received four Primetime Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for *The Studio*, as well as multiple Emmy wins and nominations for *Veep*. *Sources: imdb.com, televisionacademy.com, lambiek.net.* ## On Fi1m (6) - *The Studio* (2025), Fi1m 84, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-studio.md) - *White House Plumbers* (2023), Fi1m 58, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/white-house-plumbers.md) - *Veep* (2012), Fi1m 82, Co-Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/veep.md) - *King of the Hill* (1997), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/king-of-the-hill-1997.md) - *Frasier* (1993), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) - *The Larry Sanders Show* (1992), Fi1m 91, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-larry-sanders-show.md) ## Complete filmography (13) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Patience (Sabali)* (2025), Colorist - *The Studio* (2025), series, as Doctor · Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-studio.md) - *White House Plumbers* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/white-house-plumbers.md) - *What Men Want* (2019), Screenplay - *Veep* (2012), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/veep.md) - *A Good Old Fashioned Orgy* (2011), Director, Writer - *What's In Your Fridge?* (2006), series, Creator - *The Jake Effect* (2006), series, Writer - *Manu: Peru's Hidden Rain Forest* (1997), Writer - *King of the Hill* (1997), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/king-of-the-hill-1997.md) - *Frasier* (1993), series, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) - *The Larry Sanders Show* (1992), series, Writer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-larry-sanders-show.md) - *Saigon Bodyguards*, Screenplay --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/alex-gregory