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Kevin Curran (writer)

American television comedy writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Kevin Patrick Curran was an American television comedy writer. He wrote for Late Night with David Letterman, Married... with Children, and The Simpsons. He was also the voice of Buck the Dog on Married... with Children.

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“Kevin Curran (writer)” enters the record as american television comedy writer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kevin, Curran and writer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kevin Curran (writer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.