Tom Devanney

Not to be confused with Tom Devaney.

Tom Devanney
Born	Thomas Devanney
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1990-present

Thomas Devanney is an American animation television writer. He has written several episodes of the animated series Family Guy.

Devanney also wrote briefly for The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and was a producer on Perfect Strangers in the 1991–92 season. Devanney and his Perfect Strangers producing colleagues (Shari Hearn, Bob Keyes) went on to produce the Fox sitcom Shaky Ground, which ran during the 1992–93 season and starred Matt Frewer, Robin Riker and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Devanney met fellow Family Guy writer Chris Sheridan while writing for the 1993 series Thea. While not only writing for several episodes of Family Guy including the famous "You Have AIDS" song, as well as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, he voiced Marilyn Manson in an episode of Family guy. In the 2020 episode "CutawayLand" (S19 E4), the Griffins travel to a land of the past episode's cut aways and you hear the famous AIDS song, at which Peter says that the patient's name is Tom Devanney.

Family Guy

Devanney joined Family Guy in 2005. He has since written multiple episodes, including:

• "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" (2005)
• "Mother Tucker" (2006)
• "Airport '07" (2007)
• "Back to the Woods" (2008)
• "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag" (2009)
• "The Family Guy 100th Episode Special" (2007)
• "Quagmire's Dad" (2010)
• "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair" (2011)
• "Meg and Quagmire" (2012)
• "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2" (with Alec Sulkin and Deepak Sethi) (2012)
• "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" (2012)
• "The Most Interesting Man in the World" (2014)
• "Quagmire's Mom" (2015)
• "Peter's Sister" (2015)
• "The Dating Game" (2017)
• "Nanny Goats" (2017)
• "Bri-Da" (2019)

External links

• Tom Devanney at IMDb