Victor Fresco is an American television

Television

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 writer, producer and show creator. He is credited with creating the critically acclaimed television series Better Off Ted

Better Off Ted

Better Off Ted is an American satirical situation comedy series, created and written by Victor Fresco , who also serves as the show's Executive Producer...

, which ran for two seasons on ABC. Fresco also created the FOX show Andy Richter Controls the Universe

Andy Richter Controls the Universe

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, for which he was nominated for a writing Emmy. Additionally, Fresco wrote for three years on NBC's My Name Is Earl

My Name Is Earl

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and created the FOX series Life on a Stick

Life on a Stick

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and the ABC Series The Trouble With Normal. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his work on Mad About You

Mad About You

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. He is credited as an executive producer on the Burt Reynolds CBS series Evening Shade

Evening Shade

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Victor received his Bachelor's Degree in film and political science from Hampshire College

Hampshire College

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 in Amherst, Mass. After graduating, Victor returned to Los Angeles, where he worked in television commercials as a production assistant and as a prop master. His first writing break was in 1989, when his freelance script was accepted by the hit television comedy, ALF

ALF (TV series)

ALF is an American science fiction sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1986 to 1990, created by Paul Fusco. The title character was Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF , who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family.The series starred Max...

. Victor joined ALF as a staff writer in 1990.

His brothers are director Michael Fresco

Michael Fresco

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and television drama writer Rob Fresco.