LATE NIGHT HOST WRITER ON SIMPSONS MOVIE
“The place in this movie has as much to do with the town in ‘Waiting for Guffman’ as it does the real life town of Exeter.” “The point of the movie is to make fun of me and not make fun of Exeter,” said Long, who’s written for “The Simpsons” for more than 20 years. Like Tim in the film, Long’s dad worked in the tractor business, Long loved British ’80s band the Smiths, and felt like “an alienated kid who’s not as smart as he thinks he is.”īut the biggest difference between his upbringing and the film is Exeter was “very accepting” and “pretty inclusive,” says Long, unlike the fictional narrow-minded town of Hobart in the story. The Brandon, Man.-born Long moved to Exeter with his family around age four.
LATE NIGHT HOST WRITER ON SIMPSONS SERIES
Other cast members include Paul Braunstein and Jennifer Irwin, who play Tim’s parents and are now working with Long on a comedy series called “Cottage Country” set in Muskoka, Ont.ĭan Mazer directed “The Exchange,” which was shot in Ottawa andAlmonte, Ont. Vancouver actor Avan Jogia plays the cigarette-smoking, cologne-wearing exchange student alongside “This Is Us” star Justin Hartley as an arrogant high-school gym teacher/part-time Ontario Provincial Police officer. But it was by a band called Pete Snell and the Hometown Gentlemen, and it was fiendishly catchy and all about white squirrels.”Īvailable in select theatres and across digital and on-demand platforms Friday, “The Exchange” stars Australian actor Ed Oxenbould as a socially awkward teen aptly named Tim Long.ĭesperate for a best friend, Tim enrolls in a Canada-France exchange program, but is dismayed when the Parisian student turns out to be far cooler than he is. I’ve been looking for a copy of it I can’t find it. “The town song for a little while was called, ‘White Wonder,’ which was a song that needs to be heard to be believed.
“There were - someone will correct me on this - but probably about half-a-dozen white squirrels living in the town,” Long, who’s won five Emmy Awards for his work on “The Simpsons,” said in a recent interview. Naturally, when Long loosely based his new Canadian comedy film “The Exchange” on his high-school years in 1980s Exeter, he couldn’t resist setting the story in a fictional Ontario town that also celebrates the tree dweller. TORONTO - Before he moved to the United States to become a comedy writer on late-night talk shows and “The Simpsons,” Tim Long was a self-described nerd in an Ontario town dubbed “home of the white squirrel.”Įxeter, Ont., has had so many white bushy-tailed critters - relative anomalies compared to their black and brown cousins - the town mascot is a giant squirrel named Willis the White Wonder, and the focus of an annual festival.
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