---
name: "Josh Lieb"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/josh-lieb"
fi1m_id: "josh-lieb"
imdb_id: "nm0509288"
tmdb_id: 1216671
wikidata_id: "Q18631898"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:32:14.516761+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."
---

# Josh Lieb

## Identity

Josh Lieb

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/josh-lieb
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** josh-lieb
- **IMDb ID:** nm0509288
- **TMDB ID:** 1216671
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18631898
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Lieb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18631898, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216671

Writer. Born 1 January 1972 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- **Active:** 1989–2014
- **Frequently works with:** [Donick Cary](https://film.one/person/donick-cary.md), [Megan Amram](https://film.one/person/megan-amram.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 85, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Lieb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18631898, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216671

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)
- **HBO Max:** [*Silicon Valley*](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Josh Lieb is an American writer and television producer. He was raised in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from Harvard University, where he edited The Harvard Lampoon.

After beginning his career writing for NewsRadio, he worked as a producer and writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2006–2010), winning seven Primetime Emmy Awards. He later served as showrunner on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Lieb contributed to The Simpsons as co-executive producer and writer of the episode 'Tales from the Public Domain' (2002). His other television credits include Silicon Valley, What We Do in the Shadows and Sirens.

He has also written the young adult novels I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President (2009), a New York Times bestseller, Ratscalibur (2015) and Chapter Two is Missing (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, simpsonswiki.com, tviv.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Silicon Valley* (2014), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Minions & More Volume 1* (2022), Screenplay, Writer
- *Happily* (2021), Thanks
- *What We Do in the Shadows* (2019), series, Writer
- *Santa's Little Helpers* (2019), Screenplay
- *The Dog Days of Winter* (2019), Writer
- *‎3 Mini Movie Collection from the Grinch* (2018), Screenplay
- *Silicon Valley* (2014), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md)
- *Sirens* (2014), series, Writer
- *Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita)* (2008), Writer
- *Big Stan* (2007), Writer
- *NewsRadio* (1995), series, Writer
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President*, Writer

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