Mike McMahan


Mike McMahan is an American comedy writer and television producer. He is the creator of the animated comedies Solar Opposites and the upcoming .

Career

McMahan, a native of Chicago, first worked in production as an assistant at The Second City. From there, he was hired by Scott Rudin Productions as a production assistant, and worked on Drawn Together and South Park.
McMahan served as a writer and producer on Rick and Morty. He was one of the first writers hired for the series, as he had met co-creator Justin Roiland while working at 20th Century Fox Animation. In 2018, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for his work as a supervising producer on the episode "Pickle Rick". McMahan left the show during production of the fourth season to work on other projects.
On August 28, 2018, Hulu announced it had ordered an animated comedy Solar Opposites created by McMahan and Roiland. The series premiered on May 8, 2020. In October 2018, McMahan was announced as the creator of for CBS All Access.