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Meet the man who inspired the creation of Homer Simpson

Ruben Bolling
Oct 22, 2025
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The guest on the third-to-last episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast is Matt Groening, cartoonist and creator of The Simpsons.

In the very entertaining conversation, Groening reveals, for the first time he says, that he based his creation of Homer Simpson on a real-life person he had seen in a documentary.

I’ve never mentioned the original inspiration for H…

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